trailing whitespace flag day

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 16.10.09 22:40, Colin Walters (walters at verbum.org) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Some patch submitters feel strongly about trailing whitespace, and the
> two options I see were to either have a flag day for it, or just do it
> incrementally (i.e. only strip whitespace from areas modified by a
> patch).
> 
> Since we don't have many branches with potentially conflicting
> features around, I thought we'd just do a flag day.  The major
> downside of this is that "git annotate" becomes less useful, but I
> could imagine an annotate feature that goes for the last
> non-whitespace change.

There's actually 'git annotate --ignore-space-change'.

Lennart

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