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Message-ID: <1433421406.4861.173.camel@perches.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2015 05:36:46 -0700
From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] checkpatch: Improve output with multiple
command-line files
On Thu, 2015-06-04 at 14:29 +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Thu 2015-06-04 05:14:39, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-06-04 at 14:03 +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > > On Wed 2015-06-03 08:53:38, Joe Perches wrote:
[]
> > > > +NOTE: Whitespace errors detected.
> > > > + You may wish to use scripts/cleanpatch or scripts/cleanfile
> > > > +EOM
> > >
> > > It would make sense to write this message only once as well.
> >
> > I don't think so as it applies to each patch/file separately.
>
> IMHO, it advertises scripts/cleanpatch or scripts/cleanfile. I think
> that we do not need to repeat it for each affected patch.
No worries, we just disagree.
> In fact, using scripts/cleanfile is questionable. IMHO, it does not
> make sense to fix indentation just because it looks better. It makes
> problems when backporting fixes. But it might make sense to fix it
> when you do some real change on that line.
Whitespace at EOL backporting is trivially handled by git am.
cheers, Joe
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