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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 09:26:54 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Danny Lin <danny@kdrag0n.dev>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] .editorconfig: move to Documentation/ directory
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On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 11:53:46PM -0700, Danny Lin wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 11:49 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman 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.
> 
> If trim_trailing_whitespace is the only rule that has actually been a problem,
> how about removing it and leaving the rest of .editorconfig intact?
> The other rules are still useful to have as defaults.

Good idea, let me do v2 with that...