On May 3, 2011, at 10:27 PM, Michael Witten wrote: > On Tue, 3 May 2011 22:52:25 +0200 (CEST), Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > >> <On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, Michael Witten wrote: >>> sed -i "s/[ $(printf '\t')]\{1,\}\$//" trunk/gcc/doc/extend.texi >> >> I believe we usually don't do whitespace changes just for the sake >> of cleaning up things. >> >> Unless someone else indicates otherwise, I believe this patch is >> rejected. > > To what do we owe this tradition other than laziness?
By flat out rejecting style fixing patches, you preserve the annotations made by vc-blame (svn blame). That's the only reason that I am aware of. Laziness can't be the reason to reject the hard work of someone that wants to clean up the code. Like others, I don't find that compelling enough personally.