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Re: Linus and whitespace

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Feb 1, 2009, 22:56 UTC
Message-ID
<alpine.LFD.2.00.0902011455310.4704@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To
<87fxix3hub.fsf@jidanni.org>
On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
>
> Gentlemen, I couldn't help but notice a certain Linus B. Torvalds is
> producing mail with trailing whitespace.
alpine does it when word-wrapping my messages.

But I don't word-wrap my _patches_. Those I just insert, and alpine gets it right.

			Linus
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