linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing

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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 08:38:19 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: masahiroy@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, Danny Lin <danny@...ag0n.dev>,
	Íñigo Huguet <ihuguet@...hat.com>,
	Mickaël Salaün <mic@...ikod.net>,
	Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@...adoo.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option

On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 09:16:14AM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jun 2024, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > Some editors (like the vim variants), when seeing "trim_whitespace"
> > decide to do just that for all of the whitespace in the file you are
> > saving, even if it is not on a line that you have modified.  This plays
> > havoc with diffs and is NOT something that should be intended.
> >
> > As the "only trim whitespace on modified files" is not part of the
> 
> Do you mean s/files/lines/?

Yes.  I'll edit this when I commit it as it's driving me crazy already
and I think it needs to get to Linus "soon" before we start to see lots
of busted patches sent to maintainers...

thanks,

greg k-h