Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 16:43:59 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
Cc: mulix@mulix.org, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [CFT/PATCH] give sound/oss/trident a holiday cleanup for 2.6
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Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Nah, leave it as is.  I'm just having a little whine.  I added a nifty
>  > trailing-whitespace-detector to patch-scripts a while back and it's telling
>  > me that a *lot* of people use broken editors.
>  > 
> 
>  And if their editor changed the whitespace you'd get a lot more patches with
>  shitespace cleanups mixed in, and they'd have to clean up thhose patches... ;)

That's different.  I refer to patches which *add* trailing
whitespace: ^+.*[ ]$

I usually strip it out for them.  This has the potential to irritate people
because it can cause rejects for followup patches, but nobody has yet
mentioned it.


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