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From: "David Symonds" <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] War on whitespace: first, a bit of retreat.
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 21:14:23 +1100
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On 11/2/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> This introduces core.whitespace configuration variable that lets
> you specify the definition of "whitespace error".
>
> Currently there are two kinds of whitespace errors defined:
>
>  * trailing-space: trailing whitespaces at the end of the line.
>
>  * space-before-tab: a SP appears immediately before HT in the
>    indent part of the line.

>         [core]
>                 whitespace = -trailing-space

Could I suggest naming the option 'whitespaceError', so it's clearer
that it's a negative setting?


Dave.