From: linux@horizon.com
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: the war on trailing whitespace
Date: 27 Feb 2006 20:07:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060228010715.31275.qmail@science.horizon.com> (raw)
The only language I know of where the presence of whitespace on blank
lines matters is make(1). Even there, it's subtle. It's okay to have
(using "cat -e" syntax)
foo : bar$
command$
$
command$
But there's a difference between
foo : bar$
$
which specifies an empty command and will therefore not use a default rule, and
foo : bar$
$
which does not specify any command and so will use a default rule if one exists.
(Of course, you can also get [ \t]\n inside an arbitrary binary file, too.)
next reply other threads:[~2006-02-28 1:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-28 1:07 linux [this message]
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2006-02-26 1:40 the war on trailing whitespace Andrew Morton
2006-02-26 3:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-26 5:07 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-26 17:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-26 18:36 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-26 20:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-26 20:26 ` Dave Jones
2006-02-26 20:31 ` Dave Jones
2006-02-27 2:50 ` MIke Galbraith
2006-02-27 9:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-27 9:18 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-27 23:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-27 23:29 ` Peter Williams
2006-02-28 0:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-27 23:37 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-27 11:26 ` Adrien Beau
2006-02-27 11:41 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-27 13:31 ` Uwe Zeisberger
2006-02-27 14:10 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-27 14:31 ` Peter Hagervall
2006-02-27 14:40 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-27 15:22 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2006-02-27 16:08 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2006-02-27 16:22 ` Adrien Beau
2006-02-27 16:37 ` Uwe Zeisberger
2006-02-27 16:41 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-27 11:55 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-27 0:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-26 20:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-26 19:45 ` Sam Ravnborg
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