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

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706280012470.11120@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Date:	Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:14:24 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Josh Triplett <josht@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, josh@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: Add information about trailing whitespace.


On Jun 27 2007 12:31, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>quilt has ways of detecting and/or correcting newly-added trailing
>whitespace, but I don't know the details.

Upon `quilt ref`, it usually barfs about every line you touched where you
added or kept whitespace at EOL.

>One could share the various scriptlets which detect and fix trailing
>whitespace but I think this issue is getting less and less important
>now, because most maintainers will zap the new whitespace prior to
>merging.
>
><checks>
>But there's less than there used to be.

`| wc -l` it. The patches get larger, the # of patches declines :)


	Jan
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