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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-apply.txt | 35 |
2 files changed, 37 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index edf50cd211..0e711374dd 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -293,6 +293,20 @@ core.pager:: The command that git will use to paginate output. Can be overridden with the `GIT_PAGER` environment variable. +core.whitespace:: + 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). +* `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). +* `indent-with-non-tab` treats a line that is indented with 8 or more + space characters that can be replaced with tab characters. + alias.*:: Command aliases for the gitlink:git[1] command wrapper - e.g. after defining "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD", the invocation @@ -378,8 +392,8 @@ color.diff.<slot>:: which part of the patch to use the specified color, and is one of `plain` (context text), `meta` (metainformation), `frag` (hunk header), `old` (removed lines), `new` (added lines), - `commit` (commit headers), or `whitespace` (highlighting dubious - whitespace). The values of these variables may be specified as + `commit` (commit headers), or `whitespace` (highlighting + whitespace errors). The values of these variables may be specified as in color.branch.<slot>. color.pager:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt index c1c54bfe0b..bae3e7b909 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [--apply] [--no-add] [--build-fake-ancestor <file>] [-R | --reverse] [--allow-binary-replacement | --binary] [--reject] [-z] [-pNUM] [-CNUM] [--inaccurate-eof] [--cached] - [--whitespace=<nowarn|warn|error|error-all|strip>] + [--whitespace=<nowarn|warn|fix|error|error-all>] [--exclude=PATH] [--verbose] [<patch>...] DESCRIPTION @@ -135,25 +135,32 @@ discouraged. be useful when importing patchsets, where you want to exclude certain files or directories. ---whitespace=<option>:: - When applying a patch, detect a new or modified line - that ends with trailing whitespaces (this includes a - line that solely consists of whitespaces). By default, - the command outputs warning messages and applies the - patch. - When gitlink:git-apply[1] is used for statistics and not applying a - patch, it defaults to `nowarn`. - You can use different `<option>` to control this - behavior: +--whitespace=<action>:: + When applying a patch, detect a new or modified line that has + whitespace errors. What are considered whitespace errors is + controlled by `core.whitespace` configuration. By default, + trailing whitespaces (including lines that solely consist of + whitespaces) and a space character that is immediately followed + by a tab character inside the initial indent of the line are + considered whitespace errors. ++ +By default, the command outputs warning messages but applies the patch. +When gitlink:git-apply[1] is used for statistics and not applying a +patch, it defaults to `nowarn`. ++ +You can use different `<action>` to control this +behavior: + * `nowarn` turns off the trailing whitespace warning. * `warn` outputs warnings for a few such errors, but applies the - patch (default). + patch as-is (default). +* `fix` outputs warnings for a few such errors, and applies the + patch after fixing them (`strip` is a synonym --- the tool + used to consider only trailing whitespaces as errors, and the + fix involved 'stripping' them, but modern gits do more). * `error` outputs warnings for a few such errors, and refuses to apply the patch. * `error-all` is similar to `error` but shows all errors. -* `strip` outputs warnings for a few such errors, strips out the - trailing whitespaces and applies the patch. --inaccurate-eof:: Under certain circumstances, some versions of diff do not correctly |