git: change styling (whitespace) without changing ownership/blame?

Question

We have a massive, ancient codebase that needs a lot of cleanup. We have always had coding standards and everyone has always tried to follow them, but they were not enforced

Answer 1

I did a pull request to the TextMate git Bundle, to set this "-w" parameter by default for the "Browse Annoted File (Blame)" command. Thanks Mario Zaizar, you made my day.

diff --git a/Support/lib/git.rb b/Support/lib/git.rb
index 5e8de13..5192953 100644
--- a/Support/lib/git.rb
+++ b/Support/lib/git.rb
@@ -307,6 +307,9 @@ module SCM
       file = make_local_path(file_path)
       args = [file]
       args << revision unless revision.nil? || revision.empty?
+      # Ignore whitespace when comparing the parent's version and
+      # the child's to find where the lines came from.
+      args << '-w'
       output = command("annotate", *args)
       if output.match(/^fatal:/)
         puts output