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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
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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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