Re: RFC: Trailing blanks in source files

["Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 19:49:39 -0800 jw schultz <jw@pegasys.ws> wrote:

| 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.

AFAIK Andrew already uses a script to check for trailing spaces,
and I do also.  Yes, it could be modified to be a conversion filter,
but it doesn't happen frequently, and when it does, I want to let
the poster know about it, so I like to have the evidence handy.  :)

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~Randy