From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:29:13 GMT
Subject: Re: the war on trailing whitespace
Message-ID: <7vhd6l6ezq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060226103604.2d97696c.akpm@osdl.org>

Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:

> Thanks.  But it defaults to nowarn.  Nobody will turn it on and nothing
> improves.

This WS is clearly a policy, and while I personally agree that
it is a _good_ policy, I am a bit hesitant to hardcode this
stricter policy as the default to lower level tools.

I have a feeling that Linus is saying that pre-applypatch hook
is good enough, and you have to educate people who feed things
to you ;-)