On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 14:05 -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 10:59:20AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > +Do not leave trailing whitespace at the ends of lines. Some editors with > > +"smart" indentation will insert whitespace at the beginning of new lines as > > +appropriate, so you can start typing the next line of code right away. > > +However, some such editors do not remove the whitespace if you end up not > > +putting a line of code there, such as if you leave a blank line. As a > > result, > > +you end up with lines containing trailing whitespace. > > + > > +Git will warn you about patches that introduce trailing whitespace, and can > > +optionally strip the trailing whitespace for you; however, if applying a > > series > > +of patches, this may make later patches in the series fail by changing > > their > > +context lines. > > What I'd really like to see is, _why_ is trailing whitespace > considered harmful? Something about MUAs not preserving it or > something?
When the trailing whitespace later disappears, that change shows up in diffs, and since you can't see the whitespace difference, it just looks like a mysterious change until you check it more closely. It also introduces gratuitous conflicts and other such annoyances. - Josh Triplett - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
