For your information, I recently discovered we still have trailing whitespace issues consisting of tabs (or possibly even mixtures of blanks followed by tabs) because the current script to deal with that issue only removed trailing blanks. I have now updated that script to remove all combinations of trailing tabs and blanks. I also changed its name from
scripts/remove_trailing_blanks.sh --> scripts/remove_trailing_whitespace.sh That new version of the script appears to work fine (if sed is available on your platform), but it turns out we have a fair number of files that have trailing whitespace issues so this commit would be way too intrusive to push before release. So I have decided to keep this new version of the script on a private topic branch for now. After the release I plan to try it again, test those many file changes with the comprehensive test script, and then finally push the result. N.B. until that occurs, you should expect commands like "git am" to complain about whitespace issues. Once we are free of such trailing whitespace issues, git has methods of enforcing no trailing white space on certain files for commit, see <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/591923/make-git-automatically-remove-trailing-whitespace-before-committing> But the huge number of possibilities discussed there seem to be fairly complex and have various drawbacks so I will likely just stick with running this simple script from time to time. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and support from Colfax. Order your platform today.http://sdm.link/intel _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
