git, whitespace errors, squelching and autocrlf, the definitive answers

Question

Please can you explain about whitespace errors in git, what do they mean, what is \'squelching\', and do I need to worry about it?

(Running msysgit, but with other u

Answer 1

After searching for that answer as well and looking into both the git-config and git-apply manuals, I found that

git config apply.whitespace nowarn

deactivates showing the whitespace errors in your current repository.

To make it available for all the repositories just add --global like this:

git config --global apply.whitespace nowarn