I'm with Chuck - I'd vote for a hook that you can opt to ignore.

Why do we care so much about trailing white space - enough to generate diffs
for all files seems too much, unless I'm missing an editor related problem
people have ?

There's a long lived maintenance branch from 0.5 that I use, and fixes are
fairly often ported from there to trunk as reported/corrected.

1.0 implementation will likely bring another long living branch.

I'm not for making merging more difficult than it is already !

Regards,
Marnie

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:18 AM, Chuck Rolke <[email protected]> wrote:

> How many files are we talking about here?
>
> Yes, spurious trailing-white-space diffs are bad but if there's only 20-30
> files then I could live with that.
>
> My bet is that there are way more files with embedded tabs.
>
> I'll vote yes for a hook that flags/complains about a commit with tabs or
> trailing spaces but lets you check it in anyway. I've seen plenty of
> inadvertent tabs in my own code that I'd be happy to fix up.
>
> -Chuck
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Robbie Gemmell" <[email protected]>
> > To: [email protected]
>  > Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 6:46:18 PM
> > Subject: RE: Zap trailing whitespace?
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Steve Huston [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > Sent: 31 January 2011 23:18
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Subject: RE: Zap trailing whitespace?
> > >
> > > > OK, let me try for consensus around this:
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone object to adding an svn hook that (1) strips trailing
> > > > whitespace, and (2) bans commits that contain tabs?
> > >
> > > I think I'd rather see the hook refuse to do the commit if there are
> > > trailing whitespace or tabs. On the off chance that svn gets it
> > > wrong
> > > for some odd file type, I'd rather final control be left in a
> > > person's
> > > hands.
> > >
> > > -Steve
> > >
> >
> > Agreed.
> >
> > Also, I know many of us use git(-svn). You can do things such as
> > enabling
> > colouring of whitespace errors in diffs etc, or have git fix certain
> > whitespace errors automatically, or use some additional pre-commit
> > hooks
> > there too...basically there are various ways it could/can help in
> > getting
> > such things out of the way before SVN even enters the picture.
> >
> >
> > Robbie.
> >
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