On 01.09.12 22:11, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > <snip> > > Thanks folks, but that doesn't solve my problem. I'm looking for something > that's usable on command line or in scripts. > > Usecase a) > > * git-diff or git-format-patch or tig should not show differences > that are only whitespace changes (eg. differing linefeeds or > tabs vs. spaces, changed indentions, etc) Would that help ? git help diff [snip] --ignore-space-at-eol Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL. -b, --ignore-space-change Ignore changes in amount of whitespace. This ignores whitespace at line end, and considers all other sequences of one or more whitespace characters to be equivalent. -w, --ignore-all-space Ignore whitespace when comparing lines. This ignores differences even if one line has whitespace where the other line has none. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html