From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:18:32 GMT
Subject: Re: the war on trailing whitespace
Message-ID: <20060227011832.78359f0a.akpm@osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0602271004130.5937@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> there is a good reason not to enable the no-whitespace-at-eol checking in 
> pre-commit by default (at least for *all* files) for git development:
> 
> 	Python.

That's not a good reason.  People will discover that git has started
shouting at them and they'll work out how to make it stop.

The probem is getting C users to turn the check on, not in getting python
users to turn it off.