On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 05:47:59AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > I generally don't run it on my own patches, mostly out > of possibly misplaced confidence in my own adherence to > the nominal kernel style. It sometimes leads to mild > regret over things like whitespace defects.
In the specific case of whitespace defects, does git diff not catch those? For that matter, should we add a .gitattributes file to the kernel enabling additional whitespace errors git knows how to catch? git.git has such a file.