Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Jan 2007 01:08:23 +0100 | From | Richard Knutsson <> | Subject | Re: [SCRIPT] Remove "space damage" from patches |
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Oleg Verych wrote: >> From: Richard Knutsson >> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel >> Subject: [SCRIPT] Remove "space damage" from patches >> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:37:01 +0100 >> > > >> Hello Andrew and all >> > > Hallo. > > >> I recently tried "git-apply" on the 2.6.20-rc6-mm1 patch and found it to complain about white-spaces. >> So as a mean to (hopefully) cut down on these nasty white-spaces (and sometimes tabs) I wrote this >> little script. All it does is checking (lines that are going to be added) for spaces before tabs >> and trailing spaces/tabs. I tried it on 2.6.20-rc6-mm1 and it seem to work well >> >> If there is someone interested, _please_ take it. Any suggestion are welcomed :) >> >> Richard Knutsson >> > > Nack, big and fat. It's userspace problem. > > If our "developers" can't use or update their every-day-tools, it's a > shame. And this is not trolling: i'm using Jed and GNU Emacs, both are > ok with whitespace "production". Oh, I hope I didn't give the impression I wanted it in the kernel (that is why i labeled it as SCRIPT and not PATCH), as you said it is a userspace problem. I just thought a simple script to remove those whitespace could help in an imperfect world. I prefer kate since then you can see where the tabs begins (and other features).
Richard Knutsson
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