Git & Whitespace

Recently I've been slowly transitioning from svn to git, though one of the mildly annoying differences is that git likes to colorize trailing whitespace in diffs with a very distracting color:



First try at fixing it: a tiny script to fix the file before committing.

Oops, that introduced a huge number of changes and would mess up history quite a bit, not the way to go.

So I added this to my ~/.gitconfig:

[core]
 whitespace = -trailing-space

and now I can see the important changes in the diffs again.