That is it. After you're done reboot and tell git to use colors. It will now highlight important information for you. To enable this for all "colorable" git commands, issue the following:
git config --global color.branch "always"
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+{subsection: Whitespace}
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+{subsubsection: Eliminate whitespace from a commit}
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+Imagine your editor converted all spaces to tabs or tabs to spaces. You absolutely do not want to commit such a change. There will be no way to easily tell what you actually changed if every line of a file change a change. When this happens use =git diff= with the =-w= and/or =-b= options to create a patch that does not have your whitespace changes, reset the file you changed to match =HEAD= and apply your patch.
