From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:16:25 GMT
Subject: Re: the war on trailing whitespace
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602261213340.22647@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060226103604.2d97696c.akpm@osdl.org>



On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> Thanks.  But it defaults to nowarn.  Nobody will turn it on and nothing
> improves.

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