linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: Add information about trailing whitespace.

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Date:	Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:00:12 +0000
From:	"dave young" <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>
To:	"Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
Cc:	"Chris Shoemaker" <c.shoemaker@....net>,
	"Josh Triplett" <josht@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	josh@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: Add information about trailing whitespace.

2007/6/27, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>:
>
> On Jun 27 2007 14:05, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
> >
> >What I'd really like to see is, _why_ is trailing whitespace
> >considered harmful?
>
> Consumes bytes you'll never see :)
>
> >Something about MUAs not preserving it or something?
>
> Well, there is format=flowed. text/plain mails with a trailing blank at the end
> of line indicates the paragraph continues -- as a curtesy for mail readers with
> non-fixed-font to display the paragraph coherently rather than breaking it at
> 72/80 columns.
>
>
>         Jan
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There's more potential to cause  lines end with whitespace. How about
remove the "Some editors with ..."  like this :

+Do not leave trailing whitespace at the ends of lines.
+
+Git will warn you about patches that introduce trailing whitespace, and can
+optionally strip the trailing whitespace for you; however, if applying a series
+of patches, this may make later patches in the series fail by changing their
+context lines.
+
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