linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Whitespace Coding style fixes.

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Message-ID: <20100421145413.6046dd4f@schatten.dmk.lab>
Date:	Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:54:13 +0200
From:	Florian Mickler <florian@...kler.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Whitespace Coding style fixes.

On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:34:41 -0700
Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> 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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