From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:40:51 GMT
Subject: Re: the war on trailing whitespace
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0602271539160.4371@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20060227143147.GA12196@brainysmurf.cs.umu.se>

Hi,

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Peter Hagervall wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 03:10:55PM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> > So in essence, a multi-line statement is closed when a completely empty 
> > line is found, which means that making git internals recognize and strip 
> > such lines will result in Python code never being manageable by git.
> > 
> 
> I believe completely empty lines are to be left untouched. The war is on
> trailing whitespace.

Exactly. That is what Andreas is saying: if you change a line which 
consists only of trailing whitespace to an empty line, it breaks python 
(or formatting).

Hth,
Dscho