Re: git and trailing whitespace

[Lennart Poettering <mztabzr 0pointer de>]

On Tue, 05.05.09 23:00, Lennart Poettering (mztabzr 0pointer de) wrote:

> Heya!
> 
> Trailing whitespace sucks. git is only half as much fun when people
> have trailing whitespace in their code. diffs get cluttered up by
> changes that actually aren't changes. 
> 
> Many other project these days enforce pretty rigid whitespace regimes
> and I wonder if that would be something to enforce globally on
> git.gnome.org, too?

Given that there wasn't much opposition to enforcing a more rigid
whitespace regime I have now prepared this patch for gnome-common

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581930

This is an easy way to enforce whitespace cleanliness and also allows
folks to overwrite it if they want to.

Lennart

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