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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] notes: don't indent empty lines
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 10:10:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqwno2505w.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210830072118.91921-4-sunshine@sunshineco.com> (Eric Sunshine's message of "Mon, 30 Aug 2021 03:21:18 -0400")

Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:

> Like other Git commands, `git notes` takes care to call `stripspace` on
> the user-supplied note content, thereby ensuring that it has no trailing
> whitespace, among other cleanups. However, when notes are inserted into
> a patch via `git format-patch --notes`, all lines of the note are
> indented unconditionally, including empty lines, which leaves trailing
> whitespace on lines which previously were empty, thus negating the
> normalization done earlier. Fix this shortcoming.

Playing the devil's advocate, it can be argued that using the same
leading whitespace on a paragraph break line is actually a good
thing.  Leaving them in would give the consumer an easy way to see
which part was inserted from a note.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-30 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-30  7:21 [PATCH 0/3] suppress trailing whitespace on empty "notes" lines Eric Sunshine
2021-08-30  7:21 ` [PATCH 1/3] t3301: tolerate minor notes-related presentation changes Eric Sunshine
2021-08-30 17:09   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-08-30 18:16     ` Eric Sunshine
2021-08-30  7:21 ` [PATCH 2/3] t3303/t9301: make `notes` tests less brittle Eric Sunshine
2021-08-30  7:21 ` [PATCH 3/3] notes: don't indent empty lines Eric Sunshine
2021-08-30 17:10   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-08-30 17:41     ` Eric Sunshine
2021-08-30 17:56       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-08-30 18:04         ` Eric Sunshine
2021-09-10  5:18           ` Eric Sunshine
2021-09-10  5:21             ` Eric Sunshine
2021-09-10 18:33             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-10 20:31               ` Eric Sunshine
2021-09-11  1:53                 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-11  9:15                   ` Eric Sunshine
2021-09-11 10:39                     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-12  5:53                       ` Eric Sunshine
2021-09-12  8:22                         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-08-30 10:47 ` [RFC PATCH v2 0/2] suppress trailing whitespace on empty "notes" lines Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-30 10:47   ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] t3303/t9301: make `notes` tests less brittle Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-30 10:47   ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/2] notes: don't indent empty lines Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-08-30 16:45   ` [RFC PATCH v2 0/2] suppress trailing whitespace on empty "notes" lines Eric Sunshine
2021-08-30 16:50     ` Eric Sunshine
2021-08-30 17:04   ` Junio C Hamano

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