git create patch with diff

Question

I tried doing

git diff 13.1_dev sale_edit > patch.diff

Then I tried doing git apply patch.diff in another branch, but I got pa

Answer 1

With git version 1.9.1, I am seeing similar complaints when use 'git apply' to apply the patch created using 'git diff'.

It seems 1.9.1 git is having problem dealing with mixture of spaces & tabs in the patch file.

warning: squelched 1 whitespace error warning: 6 lines add whitespace errors.

@VonC's answer does not help and I am still getting the same warnings.

The easiest solution is to simply use the 'patch' command which successfully applies all changes captured in 'git diff' output to the target git directory.

$ patch --version GNU patch 2.7.1