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From: A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
To: Robert Fitzsimons <robfitz@273k.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/9] New option --ignore-whitespace for git-apply.
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 16:49:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4312235F.2040907@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508280956320.3317@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Robert Fitzsimons wrote:
>>Allow the user to force a patch to be applied even though there might
>>be whitespace differences.  Added a test case for the new option.
> 
> If you ignore whitespace, then you should probably accept patches that are
> whitespace corrupted in another way: lines missing the ' ' at the
> beginning. Especially lines that are empty. That's actually the most 
> common form of whitespace corruption there is.

Actually, a more restricted from of --ignore-whitespace may be useful, 
--ignore-trailing-whitespace (needs a shorter name!). Ignore only 
trailing whitespace differences (including empty context lines without 
the initial space).

  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-28 20:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-28 15:24 [PATCH 1/9] Fix git patch header processing in git-apply Robert Fitzsimons
2005-08-28 15:24 ` [PATCH 2/9] Fix detection of files with only one line " Robert Fitzsimons
2005-08-28 15:24   ` [PATCH 3/9] Fix processing of a patch file which modifies the same file " Robert Fitzsimons
2005-08-28 15:24     ` [PATCH 4/9] Fix the procssing of multiple patch files with --check " Robert Fitzsimons
2005-08-28 15:24       ` [PATCH 5/9] New option --force-delete for git-apply Robert Fitzsimons
2005-08-28 15:24         ` [PATCH 6/9] New option --ignore-whitespace " Robert Fitzsimons
2005-08-28 15:24           ` [PATCH 7/9] New option --ignore-applied " Robert Fitzsimons
2005-08-28 15:25             ` [PATCH 8/9] New git-apply test cases for patches with mulitple fragments Robert Fitzsimons
2005-08-28 15:25               ` [PATCH 9/9] New git-apply test cases for scanning forwards and backwards Robert Fitzsimons
2005-08-28 16:58           ` [PATCH 6/9] New option --ignore-whitespace for git-apply Linus Torvalds
2005-08-28 20:49             ` A Large Angry SCM [this message]
2005-08-28 21:06           ` Junio C Hamano
2005-08-28 21:06         ` [PATCH 5/9] New option --force-delete " Junio C Hamano
2005-08-28 21:06     ` [PATCH 3/9] Fix processing of a patch file which modifies the same file in git-apply Junio C Hamano
2005-08-28 16:55   ` [PATCH 2/9] Fix detection of files with only one line " Linus Torvalds
2005-08-28 23:39 ` [PATCH 1/9] Fix git patch header processing " Junio C Hamano
2005-08-29 23:58   ` Robert Fitzsimons
2005-08-30  0:47     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-30  1:09       ` Junio C Hamano
2005-08-30  1:24         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-30  1:34           ` Junio C Hamano
2005-08-30  2:00             ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-30  7:36               ` Martin Langhoff

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