Eric Kow <[email protected]> writes:

> 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)

I agree; this is particularly important for darcs-based repos because
changing whitespace on a whole heap of lines causes annoying merge and
amend problems for anyone who has uncommitted work in a branch that
predates the whitespace change.

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