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Ask a kernel developer

Ask a kernel developer

Posted Jul 8, 2010 16:10 UTC (Thu) by nye (guest, #51576)
In reply to: Ask a kernel developer by iabervon
Parent article: Ask a kernel developer

>Look at the commit to make sure it isn't making an irrelevant change to the line

And in that vein, I'm surprised by how many people aren't aware of 'git blame -w':
"Ignore whitespace when comparing the parent's version and the child's to find where the lines came from".


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