[PATCH 1/4] [kdrive] Remove trailing whitespace

Thomas Dickey dickey at his.com
Sun Jan 3 16:38:19 PST 2010


On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Keith Packard wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 09:26:06 +1000, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
>
>> any particular reason this patch is needed? It touches a lot of files but
>> doesn't actually improve the code.
>
> I checked with git diff -b and saw that it changed nothing; as it
> just eliminates a pile of trailing white space. Makes it easier to
> change the code in the future as you don't have to worry about
> accidentally removing trailing whitespace and having diffs cluttered
> with that.
>
> I'm in favor of this kind of cleanup; anyone else have an opinion?

If it's done manually rather than mechanically, it'll be undone by
another edit using cut/paste, etc.

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