Re: Whitespace and '&nbsp'

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On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Is this a gmail thing?

Gmail on the sending side - quite possibly part of a reflowing thing,
especially with quoting. I send patches as attachments because gmail
is crap in this regard (and yes, I hate it, and I go back to alpine
for any bigger issues).

But on the receiving side? Sounds unlikely, since I've used gmail for
the last year to receive patches, and this is the first time I've seen
it.

And the sent email that had the issue this time implied mutt, not gmail.

Regardless, what took me by surprise was how (a) the patch applied
fine, (b) it _looked_ fine in all the normal tools, and (c) it just
didn't work.

Now, very arguably this is not a git issue at all. Having the odd nbsp
be more visible in my other tools would have been fine - either 'less'
showing it (the way it shows other control characters) or my terminal
making some visual distinction. That said, I think it's something that
git could perhaps protect against a bit.

                    Linus
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