> On 20 Dec 2017, at 08:44, Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant 
> <ke...@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 17 Dec 2017, at 09:57, Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant 
>> <ke...@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear Illuminati,
>> 
>> I have a bit of a mystery with patch refreshes, namely that I’m occasionally 
>> getting extra whitespace on the end of some block header patch lines (Lines 
>> beginning @@).  As a result my kernel patch refreshes touch more files than 
>> are actually really required and I don’t consider suitable for submitting.
>> 

Eventually solved.  For anyone’s interest:  It looks like macos ‘diff’ is 
subtly broken.  Installing the homebrew diffutils is the solution ‘brew install 
diffutils’.  An extra gotcha is to make sure staging_dir/host/bin/diff is 
linked to the brew supplied ‘/usr/local/bin/diff’.


Cheers,

Kevin D-B

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