Re: tabs, git diff and git apply

[martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>]

 >      > If you do that again, do you get the same type of diff?
 >
 >     I get the same result.
 >
 >      > Does `git
 >      > diff` have a configuration that is doing context diffs?
 >
 >     Sure.  You just have to be able to understand the doc.
 >
 > That is easy to verify, and you should be able to do
 >
 >     HOME=/tmp git diff
 >
 > and see if the behaviour still is the same (if it doesn't work, just
 > running as a different user should).  If it isn't, it is a
 > configuraiton setting that you have done -- reading the git-config man
 > page would be the next action to see where such a setting is set.

But that wasn't my problem.  My problem was that I changed a file but
did not commit the change.  So git diff picked up the pre-change file
contents and used them instead of the actual file contents.  When I
looked at the diff output I was stumped by the fact that it claimed the
presence of a SPC character I couldn't find in that file.  The rule is
to always run git status before git diff but I probably had forgotten it
this time.

martin