I have my text editor to automatically trim trailing whitespace upon saving a file, and I am contributing to an open source project that has severe problems with trailing whitespace.
Every time I try to submit a patch I must first ignore all whitespace-only changes by hand, to choose only the relevant information. Not only that, but when I run git rebase I usually run into several problems because of them.
As such I would like to be able to add to index only non-whitespace changes, in a way similar that git add -p does, but without having to pick all the changes myself.
Does anyone know how to do this?
EDIT: I cannot change the way the project works, and they have decided, after discussing it on the mailing list, to ignore this.