On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 16:38 -0500, Jonathan Robie wrote: > .. > > If we do the svn hook, but don't strip trailing whitespace in one > checkin, we get a lot of spurious diffs over a longer period of time, > and they aren't related to the purpose of a given check in.
I think you may be misunderstanding my suggestion: I'm only suggesting stripping spaces on new or changed lines automatically upon commit. This ensures that the code base doesn't get any worse, and hopefully incrementally improves it as code is maintained. Andrew [I'm not against people incrementally tidying up whitespace pollution in files that they touch beyond whatever changes they make, but I am objecting to doing it in a massive single checkin] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache Qpid - AMQP Messaging Implementation Project: http://qpid.apache.org Use/Interact: mailto:[email protected]
