Re: Merge, rebase and whitespace fixes

[Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Rogan Dawes<lists@dawes.za.net> wrote:
>> I tried doing the whitespace cleanup on top of the last patch, but the
>> merge still conflicted.
>>
>> The interesting thing is that there's patchset from Robert Fitzsimons
>> that goes back to August 2005 (!) that does a couple of git apply
>> cleanups and in particular adds the --ignore-whitespace option that I
>> would need ...
>>
>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/7876
>>
>> but the patch apparently never made it into mainline ...
>>
>
> One thing I have done in the past when trying to merge two diverged
> trees was to format each commit in each tree to a common standard.
>
> One of the ways in which the trees had diverged was whitespace
> (non-meaningful) changes, so I used the Eclipse formatter as part of a
> "git filter-branch" script to make sure that I was ony looking at
> meaningful changes between the trees at each point. This significantly
> simplified the process.

I can also reply all the patches manually, of course, but the question
is: why should I be doing something manually when it can be done
programmatically?

BTW, I tried updating Robert's patch to the new code base, but it's
WAY too different ...

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta