Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 20:25:05 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Whitespace at end of line Message-ID: <20010715202505.A94801@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20010715111956.A71874@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 11:19:57AM -0700 References: <20010715155941.C1165@schweikhardt.net> <20010715111956.A71874@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 11:19:57AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 03:59:41PM +0200, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: > > Dima and /me recently started weeding out white space at end of line for > > the man pages. I want to widen the weeding to include as much files as > > possible under /usr/src. > > Please do not do this to the .[ch] files. It makes diffs to stable harder. > > You may not know this, but in the early history of the "new" CVS tree > (ie. /home/ncvs vs. /home/cvs) with the 4.4BSD Lite code someone did this > (including pulling files off the vendor branch). In the end this has > really irritated *many* a FreeBSD developer. Please leave such cleanup to > when people are in the files cleaning up other style nits so we don't > have 1 million commits, each taking care of just one point of style(9). > > And as you mentioned in your email, there are cases where you could > change the semantics. If one is doing a few files at a time, they can > catch the semantic changes. When doing it in-mass using a script, you > will miss at least one. Maybe I'm just plain dim today (I will add a beer to rectify this situation at first convenience..) but what is so bad about some trailing whitespace that a massive commit-a-thlon is called for? just wondering, Wilko -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte "Youth is not a time in life, it is a state of mind" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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