From http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/68146 I got
the syntax that works:
git config core.whitespace "-trailing-space"
Is it me, or is this not readable from git help config which says:
A comma separated list of common whitespace problems to notice. git
diff will use color.diff.whitespace to highlight them, and git apply
--whitespace=error will consider them as errors:
· trailing-space treats trailing whitespaces at the end of the line
as an error (enabled by default).
The '-trailing-space' syntax to disable the trailing-space setting is
not obvious and not documented as far as I can see. I would have assumed
a value of '' would disable it.
Is there a documentation bug here? If so, I suggest this patch. I didn't
find anywhere else where the '-setting' syntax was used to disable
something.
My first-ever git patch is attached, because Thunderbird messes up due
to wrapping. I realize that SubmittingPatches has a mini-guide for
reconfiguring Thunderbird (ver 1!), but I really prefer not to have to
add extensions and reconfigure Thunderbird to send patches. (Comments to
this and how the patch was made are welcome and encouraged)
Peter
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Peter Valdemar Mørch
http://www.morch.com
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From: =?utf-8?q?Peter=20Valdemar=20M=C3=B8rch?= <peter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:18:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Document disabling core.whitespace values trailing-space and space-before-tab
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Signed-off-by: Peter Valdemar Mørch <peter@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/config.txt | 6 ++++--
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index e784805..a198b3c 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -361,10 +361,12 @@ core.whitespace::
consider them as errors:
+
* `trailing-space` treats trailing whitespaces at the end of the line
- as an error (enabled by default).
+ as an error (enabled by default - disable with 'git config core.whitespace
+ "-trailing-space"').
* `space-before-tab` treats a space character that appears immediately
before a tab character in the initial indent part of the line as an
- error (enabled by default).
+ error (enabled by default - disable with 'git config core.whitespace
+ "-space-before-tab"').
* `indent-with-non-tab` treats a line that is indented with 8 or more
space characters as an error (not enabled by default).
* `cr-at-eol` treats a carriage-return at the end of line as
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1.5.6
