Re: [PATCH v6 00/14] Serialized Git Commit Graph

[Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>]

On 3/16/2018 12:28 PM, Lars Schneider wrote:
>
>> On 14 Mar 2018, at 21:43, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>
>>> Hopefully this version is ready to merge. I have several follow-up topics
>>> in mind to submit soon after, including:
>> A few patches add trailing blank lines and other whitespace
>> breakages, which will stop my "git merge" later to 'next' and down,
>> as I have a pre-commit hook to catch them.
> @stolee:
>
> I run "git --no-pager diff --check $BASE_HASH...$HEAD_HASH" to detect
> these kinds of things. I run this as part of my "prepare patch" [1] script
> which is inspired by a similar script originally written by Dscho.
>
> Do you think it would make sense to mention (or even
> recommend) such a script in your awesome GfW CONTRIBUTING.md?
>
>
> - Lars
>
>
> [1] https://github.com/larsxschneider/git-list-helper/blob/master/prepare-patch.sh#L71
>

Thanks for the suggestions. Somehow I got extra whitespace doing 
copy/paste in vim and I never re-opened that file in my normal editor 
(VS Code with an extension that shows trailing whitespace).

On 3/15/2018 1:23 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> git log --check`
> was introduced to show you whitespace problems). If all of those
> whitespace issues are unintentional, you can fix them using `git rebase
> --whitespace=fix` in the most efficient way.

Thanks for both of the suggestions. The `rebase` check was already in 
the document, so I put the checks immediately above that line. PR is 
available now [1].

Thanks,
-Stolee

[1] https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/pull/1567