Also, has there been a feature request for a '-w' option to 'git add', analogous to the same option in 'git diff'? Ernesto Alfonso <erjoalgo@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I recently ran into a similar issue as described here: > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24821431/git-apply-patch-fails-silently-no-errors-but-nothing-happens > > I was using the alias: > > alias ganw='git diff -U0 -w --no-color "$@" | git apply --cached --ignore-whitespace --unidiff-zero -' > > to stage non-whitespace changes, but I was not in the root directory and > the changes were not being applied. I broke down the command to discover > the 'git apply' part of the pipe was silently failing to apply anything, > exiting 0 without even a warning. > > The exit status and lack of warning is terribly misleading, I imagine > this would be the cause of subtle bugs in automated scripts. > > Is this expected behaviour? > > Thanks, > > Ernesto