My diff contains trailing whitespace - how to get rid of it?

Question

I\'ve tried editing a php file in TextWrangler with line endings set to Unix, in NetBeans, and in vim. When I save the diff to a patch and then try to apply it, it gives whi

Answer 1

the one line solution is:

emacs  -f delete-trailing-whitespace -f save-buffer -f kill-emacs

source: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShell/Development/WorkingWithPatches