What does “1 line adds whitespace errors” mean when applying a patch?

Question

I\'m editing some markdown files of a cloned remote repository, and wanted to test creating and applying patches from one branch to another. However, every time I make any chang

Answer 1

The whitespace error with visual images is shown here.

http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Distributed-Git-Contributing-to-a-Project#Commit-Guidelines