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
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