Re: git revert ignore whitespace

On Fri, September 10, 2010 16:21, Jeff King wrote:

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`'"

Thanks for the tip Jeff.

I had to modify the commands a bit to get it to work.
Here they are:
git diff-tree -p <commithash> | git apply --reverse --ignore-whitespace -C0
git add <file(s)>
git commit -m "revert '`git log -1 --format=%s $commit`'"

The --reverse is necessary to revert a patch, I needed the -C0 parameter
as well because the line above changed as well.
This was a fairly simple example, but I imagine it won't work at all with
a larger history, especially with more changes in the relevant sections
and additions/deletions. I believe git revert does take these into
account?

Kind regards,
Steven