From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:56:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add gitattributes file making whitespace checking pickier
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0802091251430.13593@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080209162234.GA25533@fieldses.org>

On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, J. Bruce Fields wrote:

> From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
> 
> This will change the notion of "bad" whitespace for the git project to
> include initial whitespace that uses spaces where tabs could have been
> used.
> 
> This only changes which whitespace is considered "bad".  It doesn't
> change the behavior when bad whitespace is found.  By default, commands
> like git-apply, git-am, and git-rebase will print a warning but
> otherwise do nothing.

I think there are files under t/ with different whitespace rules. For 
example, expected format-patch output will have lines that are: "-- "
While you're putting in attributes in general, it'd be nice to take care 
of all of the cases already in the tree.

	-Daniel
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