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From: A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Linus and whitespace
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:48:51 -0500
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jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> Gentlemen, I couldn't help but notice a certain Linus B. Torvalds is
> producing mail with trailing whitespace.
> 
> I recall one should (linux-doc-*/Documentation/CodingStyle*:)
> "Get a decent editor and don't leave whitespace at the end of lines."
> 
> Indeed, with my GNU Emacs show-trailing-whitespace X-ray
> eyespecs on all day, whitespace becomes screaming purple space, so you
> can't blame me for noticing.
> 
> Anyway, I have analyzed his messages,
> (User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23))
> and discovered that the whitespace phenomenon almost always occurs if
> the lines are more than 60 characters long, the "danger zone", we might say.
> 
> $ perl -nwle 'print length if / $/' recent_linus_postings|
> sort|uniq -c|sort -k 2nr
>       1 77
>       1 76
>      17 75
>      17 74
>      11 73
>      18 72
>      12 71
>       6 70
>       8 69
>       6 68
>       2 67
>       1 66
>       2 64
>       1 63
>       1 40
>       9 2

CodingStyle applies to *patches* not to discussion. In how many of those 
emails you analyzed were there any trailing whitespace in a patch?