title: git, whitespace errors, squelching and autocrlf, the definitive answers
body: <p>Please can you explain about whitespace errors in git, what do they mean, what is 'squelching', and do I need to worry about it?</p>
  
  <p>(Running msysgit, but with other users on linux).</p>
  
  <p><em>There is already a 'definitive' answer for autocrlf <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2016673/definitive-recommendation-for-git-autocrlf-settings">here</a></em> (set it to false <code>git config --global core.autocrlf false
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