From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:22:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add gitattributes file making whitespace checking pickier
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0802101502320.13593@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vabm9gk1p.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I've tried "unexpand | expand" to Documentation/*.txt and
> compared the formatted documentation before and after the
> change, and as we suspected everything seems to match.
> 
> So I am considering applying this patch.  We may want to tighten
> it later but as the initial set of rules this should do.

I think it's worthwhile to note that some of the files under t/ have 
whitespace that doesn't conform to the rest of the project. This would 
include anything with a email signature break marker (line consisting of 
"-- "), as well as patches with non-standard whitespace used for testing 
whitespace checking, and (I think) correct patches with blank lines as 
context. It's possible that we want to declare all of t/ as binary, at 
least initially, in the theory that we want to test with exact byte 
sequence expectations and inputs.

On the other hand, I think this patch is an odd combination of stuff; 
aren't the contrib exceptions not exceptional, since only *.[ch] and *.txt 
gets declared as "whitespace"?

	-Daniel
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