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Re: Whitespace and '&nbsp'

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DNDaniel Nyström <daniel.nystrom@timeterminal.se>
Date
May 30, 2011, 12:52 UTC
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2011/5/28 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
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>> Again, I'm not convinced git should really care, but I'm also not
>> convinced that sbsp is necessarily all about the git whitespace
>> fixups.
>
> I am not convinced git should care, either, but if nobody else helps us,
> we need to help ourselves ;-).

Or write a standalone tool through which patches (and code for that matter) could be piped, with the only purpose of showing "misleading" unicode characters and the likes?

I can see even wider use of such a tool.
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Message 14 of 15 in “Whitespace and '&nbsp'”
  1. Linus TorvaldsMay 26, 2011
  2. Junio C HamanoMay 26, 2011
  3. Linus TorvaldsMay 26, 2011
  4. Andreas SchwabMay 27, 2011
  5. Linus TorvaldsMay 27, 2011
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 27, 2011
  7. Junio C HamanoMay 27, 2011
  8. Linus TorvaldsMay 27, 2011
  9. Junio C HamanoMay 27, 2011
  10. 1/3 ws.c: add a helper to format comma separated messagesJunio C Hamano, May 27, 2011
  11. 2/3 War on nbsp: a bit of retreatJunio C Hamano, May 27, 2011
  12. 3/3 War on nbsp: Add "nbsp" whitespace breakage classJunio C Hamano, May 27, 2011
  13. 4/3 War on nbsp: teach "git apply" to check and fix nbspJunio C Hamano, May 28, 2011
  14. Daniel NyströmMay 30, 2011
  15. Matthieu MoyMay 26, 2011

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