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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
Cc: mulix@mulix.org, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [CFT/PATCH] give sound/oss/trident a holiday cleanup for 2.6
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 16:43:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040101164359.3656f0f7.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040102003950.GF1882@matchmail.com>

Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Nah, leave it as is.  I'm just having a little whine.  I added a nifty
>  > trailing-whitespace-detector to patch-scripts a while back and it's telling
>  > me that a *lot* of people use broken editors.
>  > 
> 
>  And if their editor changed the whitespace you'd get a lot more patches with
>  shitespace cleanups mixed in, and they'd have to clean up thhose patches... ;)

That's different.  I refer to patches which *add* trailing
whitespace: ^+.*[ ]$

I usually strip it out for them.  This has the potential to irritate people
because it can cause rejects for followup patches, but nobody has yet
mentioned it.



  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-02  0:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-29 18:38 Muli Ben-Yehuda
2003-12-29 18:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-29 18:56   ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2003-12-29 19:09     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-29 19:40       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-29 20:32         ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-01 23:51   ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2004-01-02  0:04     ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-02  0:12       ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2004-01-02  0:26         ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-02  0:39           ` Mike Fedyk
2004-01-02  0:43             ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-12-29 18:53 ` Mike Fedyk

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