Re: [PATCH] Whitespace Coding style fixes.

From: Florian Mickler
Date: Wed Apr 21 2010 - 08:54:50 EST


On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:34:41 -0700
Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 00:09 -0700, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> > On 04/21/2010 12:03 AM, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > > You screw up git-blame.
> > how does this patch screw it up?
>
> Alexey just doesn't like whitespace patches.
>
> Whitespace patches don't really "screw up" git blame.
>
> git blame displays the current version of a file
> with line-by-line commits and the date each line
> was last modified.
>
> So whitespace changes make it harder to find which patch
> introduced the last logical change for a particular line.

git blame -w

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