Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment:
Answering as a rather infrequent user of 'make patchcheck', but someone who
vows to use it more often in future... :)
(1) Well, it would be awkward to use grep or wc on Windows, so it's convenient
not to need external tools.
(2) +1 to a more detailed report, at least giving the file name and what was
wrong with it ("trailing whitespace in yourfile.c"); I could imagine that
people might care about finding trailing whitespace or tabs, but not about line
length, for example. (Many of the existing C files already have lines >= 80
characters.)
(3) Don't really care: emacs already does both these things for me nicely.
I'd rather just have patchcheck do the reporting. And automatic replacement of
tabs with spaces in C files might not guess correctly what the author intended.
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