"Kenneth P. Turvey" <kt-usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I keep getting annoying errors when I try to commit. Git complains that I
> have whitespace in the wrong places.
>
> This is fine.. I even like it. What I don't like is having to change this
> stuff manually. Is there anyway to tell git to just fix the stuff and do
> the commit?
>
> I've tried setting
>
> apply.whitespace = fix
>
> in my .gitconfig, but that doesn't seem to help when doing commits.
Yeah, that is to protect yourself from whitespace mess _other people_
threw at you in a patch form.
You can ask git to fix your own stuff up, by pretending that you are that
other person who made the mess, by doing:
git diff HEAD >P.diff
git reset --hard HEAD
git apply --index --whitespace=fix P.diff
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