Re: git merge ignoring whitespace

layer [off-list ref] writes:

Junio, on 3/25/07 you said:

  I know Linus does not like applying patches with whitespace
  fuzziness, but I personally think a merge that ignores
  whitespace changes would be a useful thing to have, without
  having to call an external specialized merge backend. In other
  words, I do not think it is so special a thing to want to, but
  it is rather an unfortunate norm.  I am not opposed to give
  git-merge-recursive a command line option to tell it to merge
  ignoring the whitespace-only changes, when it does the 3-way
  file-level merge internally.

Whatever came of this?

I do not know.  When I say "I am not opposed to", I mean just that. 

I may consider it a bad mode of operation, and I may hesitate to encourage
people to use it as their default.  But I do not feel strongly enough to
veto it---as long as it is a rope you need to explicitly ask for to hang
yourself with, I think it is Ok if we allowed such an option.

It is not my itch to scratch, and I do not keep track.

Did you submit a patch that implements the new feature cleanly?