Re: the war on trailing whitespace

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:

Few enough people run "git-apply" on its own. Most people (certainly me) end up using it through some email-applicator script or other. So the plan was that the --whitespace=warn/error flag would go there, and that git-apply by default would work more like "patch".

But hey, I have no strong preferences, and it's easy enough to make the default be warn (and add a "--whitespace=ok" flag to turn it off).

Personally, I don't mind whitespace that much. In particular, I _suspect_ I often have empty lines like

	int i;
	
	i = 10;

where the "empty" line actually has the same indentation as the lines around it. Is that wrong? Perhaps.

		Linus