Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 27 Jan 2004 19:49:39 -0800 | | From | jw schultz <> | | Subject | Re: RFC: Trailing blanks in source files |
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On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 04:02:14PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote: > > > > So please don't bother with just whitespace changes unless you > > are going to cleanup a <driver | fs | module | etc> completely. > > And if you're going to do that, do the whitespace cleanup _first_, so the > substantive changes to the driver/fs/module/etc can be sanely understood > and reverted if necessary. > > I frequently sneakily remove all newly-added trailing whitespace from the > patches people send me. In 15 years it'll all be gone.
This would maybe warrant a bk option to remove trailing whitespace from modified lines. Preferably with an notification that it is happening so if for some reason you do want trailing whitespace you could abort or override.
A patch filter that removed trailing whitespace from + lines could also be used.
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