On Tue, 6 Jan 2015, Nikita Popov wrote:

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

Don't do it for just master, it makes automatic merging possibly a pain. 
It should go to all "alive" branches, with properly merged up commits.

> 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.

That would change a commit hash, or cause an extra commit. No thanks.

cheers,
Derick

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