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From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Hagervall <hager@cs.umu.se>, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: the war on trailing whitespace
Date: 27 Feb 2006 07:22:33 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86wtfgzv0m.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0602271539160.4371@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

>>>>> "Johannes" == Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

Johannes> Exactly. That is what Andreas is saying: if you change a line which 
Johannes> consists only of trailing whitespace to an empty line, it breaks python 
Johannes> (or formatting).

[insert standard rant about Python treating invisible things significantly,
which is the prime counter-rant to people saying Perl looks like line noise]

[chuckling]

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-27 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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
2006-02-28  9:13                       ` [PATCH] git-apply: war on whitespace -- finishing touches Junio C Hamano
2006-02-28  1:13                     ` [PATCH 1/3] apply: squelch excessive errors and --whitespace=error-all Junio C Hamano
2006-02-28  1:13                     ` [PATCH 2/3] apply --whitespace: configuration option Junio C Hamano
2006-02-28  9:16                       ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-28  9:38                         ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-28  9:46                           ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-28  1:13                     ` [PATCH 3/3] git-apply --whitespace=nowarn Junio C Hamano
2006-02-28  3:26                       ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-02-28  5:08                         ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-27 11:26                 ` the war on trailing whitespace 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 [this message]
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
2006-02-27  2:14             ` [PATCH] apply --whitespace fixes and enhancements Junio C Hamano
2006-02-26 20:29         ` the war on trailing whitespace Junio C Hamano
2006-02-26 19:45       ` Sam Ravnborg
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-28  1:07 linux

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