On 6/7/2010 12:37 PM, Andy Pugh wrote:
>>   Question:   As you are poking through code like this to try and
>> determine what to do, making changes, trying things out .... how do you
>> not disturb the whitespace?
>>      
> I don't think you can avoid it entirely, but git diff has switches to
> ignore whitespace changes. (--ignore-all-space). I am not sure how
> well it works.
>
> I didn't know of the switch, so ended up going through the diff file
> hand-editing the whitespace-only changes out. Which was only partially
> sucessful.
>
> I guess you could then revert and re-patch to get your reap changes,
> but lose the whitespace changes.
>
>    

Nice suggestion Andy..  for a whitespace mangler such as myself that 
should be valuable!  :-)

Thanks,  Dave

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