git apply: option to ignore whitespace differences

Introduce --ignore-whitespace option and corresponding config bool to
ignore whitespace differences while applying patches, akin to the
'patch' program.

'git am', 'git rebase' and the bash git completion are made aware of
this option.

Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/git-am.sh b/git-am.sh
index d64d997535..ab39b3c2fa 100755
--- a/git-am.sh
+++ b/git-am.sh
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ s,signoff       add a Signed-off-by line to the commit message
 u,utf8          recode into utf8 (default)
 k,keep          pass -k flag to git-mailinfo
 whitespace=     pass it through git-apply
+ignore-space-change pass it through git-apply
+ignore-whitespace pass it through git-apply
 directory=      pass it through git-apply
 C=              pass it through git-apply
 p=              pass it through git-apply
@@ -303,7 +305,7 @@ do
 		git_apply_opt="$git_apply_opt $(sq "$1$2")"; shift ;;
 	--patch-format)
 		shift ; patch_format="$1" ;;
-	--reject)
+	--reject|--ignore-whitespace|--ignore-space-change)
 		git_apply_opt="$git_apply_opt $1" ;;
 	--committer-date-is-author-date)
 		committer_date_is_author_date=t ;;