From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sam Ravnborg Subject: Re: the war on trailing whitespace Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:45:29 +0100 Message-ID: <20060226194529.GA21009@mars.ravnborg.org> References: <20060225174047.0e9a6d29.akpm@osdl.org> <7v1wxq7psj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20060225210712.29b30f59.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andrew Morton , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Feb 26 20:45:41 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FDRpr-0001TQ-VC for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:45:40 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751362AbWBZTph (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2006 14:45:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751392AbWBZTph (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2006 14:45:37 -0500 Received: from pasmtp.tele.dk ([193.162.159.95]:6664 "EHLO pasmtp.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751362AbWBZTpg (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2006 14:45:36 -0500 Received: from mars.ravnborg.org (0x50a0757d.hrnxx9.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [80.160.117.125]) by pasmtp.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9B311EC301; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:45:35 +0100 (CET) Received: by mars.ravnborg.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D67083940A2; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:45:29 +0100 (CET) To: Linus Torvalds Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 09:29:00AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sat, 25 Feb 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > I'd suggest a) git will simply refuse to apply such a patch unless given a > > special `forcing' flag, b) even when thus forced, it will still warn and c) > > with a different flag, it will strip-then-apply, without generating a > > warning. > > This doesn't do the "strip-then-apply" thing, but it allows you to make > git-apply generate a warning or error on extraneous whitespace. Can this somehow be done in a way so everyone that clones your tree will inherit the warn/error on whitespace setting? In this way we make sure it gets enabled automagically in many trees and I do not have to remember yet another options. Alternatively something that is enabled for a tree so I only have to do something once - a trigger maybe? Sam