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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit•com>
Cc: "Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists)" <4ux6as402@sneakemail•com>,
	git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document disabling core.whitespace values trailing-space and space-before-tab
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:49:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v3alyuz4o.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vbq0m608w.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:44:47 -0700")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:

> Various "values" given to the whitespace attribute actually act as if they
> are sub-variables and obey the similar "[-]name" rule, but (1) that is
> left unsaid, and (2) in that context '!' does not make sense so only '-'
> has any meaning.

Actually I take it back.  "!name to revert to unspecified and -name to unset"
really is about name; values to whitespace do not work like "sub-variables"
at all.

> So I think Peter's patch is going in the right direction.

I've committed a much more simplified version.

-- >8 --
[PATCH] Documentation: clarify how to diable elements in core.whitespace

Noticed by Peter Valdemar Mørch.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index e784805..798b551 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -358,7 +358,8 @@ 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:
+	consider them as errors.  You can prefix `-` to disable
+	any of them (e.g. `-trailing-space`):
 +
 * `trailing-space` treats trailing whitespaces at the end of the line
   as an error (enabled by default).

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-25  8:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-24  5:34 [PATCH] Document disabling core.whitespace values trailing-space and space-before-tab "Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists)"
2008-07-24  8:29 ` Nanako Shiraishi
2008-07-24  9:41   ` "Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists)"
2008-07-25  4:44   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-25  6:11     ` Peter Valdemar Mørch
2008-07-25  6:13     ` "Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists)"
2008-07-25  8:49     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-07-25  7:28 ` Junio C Hamano

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