Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760355AbXF1GA2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:00:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752375AbXF1GAP (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:00:15 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.238]:51866 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751182AbXF1GAO (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:00:14 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=t6H+1DHrVrrBl++Zwp4Scqy6m6xIIVLrQBewNAOnoTUP2xZdB1HKAS6Gcgq3XbRIAG6ddXspdxQSAQf9jDu/awHf4PCQZc1WJjrSRjQCpodMsK8vYzJdMczOADkTe1EON/sreiEu0YnQuyFTsunOI04aXLRn7efuED/wSdEudJk= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:00:12 +0000 From: "dave young" To: "Jan Engelhardt" Subject: Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: Add information about trailing whitespace. Cc: "Chris Shoemaker" , "Josh Triplett" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, josh@kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1182967160.8970.108.camel@josh-work.beaverton.ibm.com> <20070627180552.GA746@pe.Belkin> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1508 Lines: 41 2007/6/27, Jan Engelhardt : > > On Jun 27 2007 14:05, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > > > >What I'd really like to see is, _why_ is trailing whitespace > >considered harmful? > > Consumes bytes you'll never see :) > > >Something about MUAs not preserving it or something? > > Well, there is format=flowed. text/plain mails with a trailing blank at the end > of line indicates the paragraph continues -- as a curtesy for mail readers with > non-fixed-font to display the paragraph coherently rather than breaking it at > 72/80 columns. > > > Jan > -- > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > There's more potential to cause lines end with whitespace. How about remove the "Some editors with ..." like this : +Do not leave trailing whitespace at the ends of lines. + +Git will warn you about patches that introduce trailing whitespace, and can +optionally strip the trailing whitespace for you; however, if applying a series +of patches, this may make later patches in the series fail by changing their +context lines. + - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/