Re: git revert ignore whitespace

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 09:57:52AM +0200, Steven wrote:

I want to revert a specific commit using 'git revert',
however in the meantime there were some whitespace changes.
Is it still possible to do this? The manual doesn't mention a -w or
--ignore-whitespace option for git revert.

In theory there is no reason we couldn't support "-w", but I don't think
there is a way to do it currently.

You could just manually do the revert. Something like:

  git diff-tree -p $commit | git apply --ignore-whitespace
  git commit -m "revert '`git log -1 --format=%s $commit`'"

which is more or less what revert will do (actually, I think it will do
more with 3-way merges during the application, but the point is that a
revert in git is nothing more than achieving a tree state that pulls out
the reverted content, and then making a commit. It has no special status
in the history graph).

-Peff