Would  this help?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9776527/merging-without-whitespace-conflicts

In brief:  git merge -Xignore-space-change

There is also a reference there to a commit hook which removes trailing
whitespace.

On 20 February 2018 at 12:23, Vincent Delecroix <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 20/02/2018 12:45, Erik Bray wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 12:22 PM, Daniel Krenn <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2018-02-20 12:07, Simon King wrote:
>>>
>>>> Why not doing such cleanup right before releasing a beta version?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Or even better, right before a release, e.g. doing it for a rc0 or rc1.
>>>
>>
>> That was my thinking as well--I'm sure Volker and I could coordinate
>> something like that.
>>
>> However, it could still leave plenty of open tickets with otherwise
>> good (but as yet unmerged) branches with trivial merge conflicts :/
>>
>
> Indeed, this is the problem. Further patches would not apply for
> trivial reason. To my mind the best would be to get rid of trailing
> whitespaces once and forever (ie not accepting branches with trailing
> whitespaces).
>
> Vincent
>
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