Hi, On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Jan Stolarek <jan.stola...@p.lodz.pl> wrote: >> The problem with these kind of commit-time checks is that you only find >> out the problem *after* you've validated your nicely polished commits. > This is easily solved by adding this line to .emacs file: > > (add-hook 'before-save-hook 'delete-trailing-whitespace) > > No more trailing whitespaces. Ever.
The problem with this approach is that if a file already contains trailing whitespace, you'll introduce spurious changes in your commit. This can make patches quite hard to review. One solution is to use ethan-wspace [1]. [1] https://github.com/glasserc/ethan-wspace _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
