Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 11:19:57 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Whitespace at end of line Message-ID: <20010715111956.A71874@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20010715155941.C1165@schweikhardt.net>; from schweikh@schweikhardt.net on Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 03:59:41PM %2B0200 References: <20010715155941.C1165@schweikhardt.net>
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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. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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