It made my merge from trunk to branch a little harder than it had to be, too.
I understand the drive for this, but there is that downside as well. Cheers, Mike John Hunter wrote: > On Nov 18, 2007 10:10 PM, Jarrod Millman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Nov 18, 2007 11:33 AM, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Trailing whitespace introduces noise--sometimes a *lot* of noise--into >>> svn changesets. I would very much appreciate it if everyone would try >>> to eliminate trailing whitespace before committing any changes to svn. >>> (And also eliminate hard tabs--I haven't seen many new ones creeping in, >>> but continuing vigilence is appreciated.) > > While I'm happy to play along ( I configured my emacs to detect > whitespace) and suspect I may have been a trailing whitespace > contributer, I fear this may be a case where the cure is worse than > the disease. As we all make commits to fix the trailing whitespaces, > since they are now glaringly ugly in my emacs buffer, I fear we will > see significantly more changesets which are whitespace only, than if > we simply configured our editors to ignore them. > > JDH > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-devel mailing list > Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
