From: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 09:03:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/40] test whitespace - perform trivial whitespace clean ups of test scripts.
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On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> wrote:
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One can imagine generalising test-cleaner.sh to things that aren't tests.

So, something like:

         git whitespace-cleaner --test "make test" *.c *.h

would do whitespace cleaning on all .c and .h files and then use a
bisection process to find the edits that cause a break in the test
suite. Then rewrite the history and iterate the process to find the
maximal series of whitespace fixups that does not break the test
suite.

jon.