On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:34:52 -0500, Gwern Branwen wrote:
> > (My request was really just to not produce any new trailing whitespace,
> >  not to get rid of a whole lot of it.  It seems like the right approach
> >  to the latter is just to sneak them in to any patches you make, i.e.
> >  if you have to touch a line that's got trailing whitespace in it anyway,
> >  then by all means go ahead and kill it, otherwise, leave it alone)
> 
> Funnily enough, on other projects I get yelled at for just that.

Really? :-) What's their justification?  I think mine is something like
"mumble mumble commute mumble" (I guess that argument could be addressed
by submitting lots of little ws patches like you did, but then we're
polluting the history).

Anyway, let me stress that I don't consider this a big deal, just
something I like to pick on because it's easy.

-- 
Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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