On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 11:58 PM, Stanislav Malyshev <smalys...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi!
>
> The code in the PHP source repo has a lot of random dangling whitespace
> at the end of lines, which looks sloppy and produces some weird effects
> in diffs because some editors auto-clean it and some do not. I'd like to
> clean it up (it's easy to do automatically) in master, but this produces
> a big patch that may also create some conflicts with existing pull reqs
> (easily resolved, but still).
> So, I'd like to ask if there are any objections to such cleanup? If not,
> then I'll do it, probably next weekend.
>

No objection to whitespace cleanup. iirc git even has options to ignore
whitespace changes on merge/rebase.

It would be nice to also add a pre-commit hook stripping trailing
whitespace, to avoid this happening again.

Nikita

Reply via email to