From: J. Bruce Fields Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:53:49 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] git-apply: add tests for stripping of leading and trailing whitespace Message-ID: <20070918005349.GB2443@fieldses.org> In-Reply-To: On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 01:44:46AM +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > "J. Bruce Fields" writes: > > >> It may be valid, some projects use tabs for indentation and spaces > >> for alignment, e.g.: > > > > Yeah, I know. I was hoping that the stripspace behavior was already > > specific enough to the linux-kernel style that we could just assume that > > it was only used by developers on projects with the same style. > > Actually I would consider linux kernel an example of such project > with spaces for alignment. Except that current tools are not to > the task. Someday... I guess I haven't followed previous arguments on the subject, but based on checkpatch.pl I was assuming the tabs-whenever-possible policy had won out. Anyway, I can only care about whitespace for so long.... --b.