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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: How to fix (and find) many git-* --check errors?
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"Peter Valdemar M=C3=B8rch (Lists)"  <4ux6as402@sneakemail.com> writes:

> We have > 37000 white space "errors" in HEAD, mostly trailing
> whitespace, and I'm looking for a
>
> $ git diff --check | git??? --whitespace=3Dfix
>
> command.

Starting from a clean checkout, you could do something like this:

	$ git reset --hard
        $ rm .git/index
        $ git diff --binary -R HEAD >P.diff
        $ git apply --whitespace=3Dfix --cached <P.diff
	$ git commit -m "Fixed all whitespace gotchas"

P.diff contains essentially everything, and you are recreating everythi=
ng
from that patch.