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Re: [PATCH 3/3] git-apply: add tests for stripping of leading and trailing whitespace

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KHKrzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Date
Sep 17, 2007, 23:44 UTC
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"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:
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>> It may be valid, some projects use tabs for indentation and spaces
>> for alignment, e.g.:
>
> Yeah, I know.  I was hoping that the stripspace behavior was already
> specific enough to the linux-kernel style that we could just assume that 
> it was only used by developers on projects with the same style.

Actually I would consider linux kernel an example of such project with spaces for alignment. Except that current tools are not to the task. Someday...

Obviously other cases are valid, especially 'spaces before tabs' which IMHO includes '8 or more non-consecutive initial spaces'. And all trailing whitespace of course.

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Krzysztof Halasa
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Message 7 of 16 in “whitespace-stripping”
  1. J. Bruce FieldsSep 16, 2007
  2. 1/3 git-apply: fix whitespace strippingJ. Bruce Fields, Sep 16, 2007
  3. 2/3 git-apply: complain about >=8 consecutive spaces in initial indentJ. Bruce Fields, Sep 16, 2007
  4. 3/3 git-apply: add tests for stripping of leading and trailing whitespaceJ. Bruce Fields, Sep 16, 2007
  5. Krzysztof HalasaSep 17, 2007
  6. J. Bruce FieldsSep 17, 2007
  7. Krzysztof HalasaSep 17, 2007
  8. J. Bruce FieldsSep 18, 2007
  9. Martin LanghoffSep 16, 2007
  10. J. Bruce FieldsSep 17, 2007
  11. Junio C HamanoSep 17, 2007
  12. J. Bruce FieldsSep 17, 2007
  13. git-diff: complain about >=8 consecutive spaces in initial indentJunio C Hamano, Oct 3, 2007
  14. David KastrupSep 18, 2007
  15. J. Bruce FieldsSep 18, 2007
  16. David KastrupSep 18, 2007

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