On Tue, 20 Sept 2022 at 02:18, Zopolis0 via Gcc-help <gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The editor I use (Sublime Text) disagrees with gcc on tabs vs spaces and > tabs-spaces mixing, so every change I make is surrounded by a lot of > whitespace diff. > > This makes git merge freak out, and I want to get rid of it. > > I have too many patches to do manually, so I was wondering whether > check_GNU_style.(sh/py) had a way to automatically apply the recommended > whitespace changes. You can get a plugin for sublimetext to make it follow the https://editorconfig.org/ spec. That will allow you to put a .editorconfig file in your GCC source tree and your editor will use the desired config. You can add the .editorconfig file to the .git/info/exclude file so that Git ignores it.