On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Robert Bradshaw
<rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:44 AM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:06 AM, leif <not.rea...@online.de> wrote:
>>> On 25 Okt., 12:04, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote:
>>>> On 2011-10-25 09:51, Dan Drake wrote:
>>>> > I think that would be a good idea, although if you're just running that
>>>> > through sed, the exact patches applied would be different from the ones
>>>> > on the trac server, which would cause some confusion.
>>>>
>>>> Very true, but I think that is only a minor annoyance.
>>>
>>> I wouldn't say it's minor, since all developers basing their work on
>>> these patches on trac still have the problem until a ticket gets
>>> merged.
>>>
>>> So checking for added trailing whitespace in patches uploaded to trac
>>> would IMHO be a task for the patchbot.
>>
>> Even better, it could be done by a trac pluging itself (at the moment
>> when it matters most), not the patchbot, which may or may not run
>> later.
>
> +1
>
> Ideally, when you upload a patch it would do a bunch of checks and
> present to you a "fixed" file with the option of downloading it or
> replacing the original file right there.

An even better option would be a "submit patch to trac" command, which
could take as set of patches from your queue, clean them up,
optionally run a bunch of tests, and upload them (updating the
description to the current set and any dependencies).

- Robert

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