On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Richard Kenner wrote: > > In my mind it's very simple: trailing whitespace poses exactly _no_ > > problem (except of being against the coding standard), > > It's against the coding standards for a very good reason, which is that it > makes patching harder because you have lines that compare differently but > look identical. So removing them, while making some patches harder to > apply, makes others easier into the future. > > Like others, my feeling is that the biggest problem here is the timing and > lack of notice.
But different timing or a notice wouldn't fix one of my no longer applying patches. If you can offer advice on how to teach quilt (which I belive uses patch) to ignore whitespace changes when applying patches then more power to you - the only tool that seems to be able to ignore whitespace changes is diff. Richard.
