Re: [PATCH 1/2] War on whitespace: first, a bit of retreat.

From: David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 2, 2007, 10:14 UTC
Message-ID: <ee77f5c20711020314h43290dbs8141cb3905c867@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vwst15ceq.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 11/2/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> This introduces core.whitespace configuration variable that lets
> you specify the definition of "whitespace error".
>
> Currently there are two kinds of whitespace errors defined:
>
>  * trailing-space: trailing whitespaces at the end of the line.
>
>  * space-before-tab: a SP appears immediately before HT in the
>    indent part of the line.

>         [core]
>                 whitespace = -trailing-space

Could I suggest naming the option 'whitespaceError', so it's clearer that it's a negative setting?

Dave.