"Gwern Branwen" <[email protected]> writes: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Eric Kow wrote: >> Hmm... I certainly appreciate the sentiment, but I think this is just a >> bit excessive/invasive... thanks! >> >> (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.
That's understandable if your "fixed" whitespace violates the project-specific whitespace conventions -- even if those conventions are implied and stupid. For example, if everyone else in the project uses literal tabs in the source, and you don't, they will get pissed off. _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
