Re: Extraneous whitespace removal?

["M. R. Brown" <mrbrown@0xd6.org>]

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* Wayne Scott <wscott@bitmover.com> on Thu, Nov 29, 2001:

> From: Jeremy M. Dolan <jmd@turbogeek.org>
> > Pluses:
> >  - clean up messy whitespace
> >  - cut precious picoseconds off compile time
> >  - cut kernel tree by 200k (+/- alot)
> >
> > Minuses:
> >  - adds 3.8M bzip2 or 4.7M gzip to next diff
> 
> As someone who has spend a lot of time working on version control and
> file merging, let be tell you the big minus you missed. 
> 
> After this patch go into the Linux kernel, everyone who is maintaining
> a set of patches in parallel with the main kernel has a lot of extra
> work resolving the conflicts caused by this change.  You have touched
> a huge number of lines and people will have to walk a list of merge
> conflicts everywhere they have made local changes and pick their side.
> And anytime people do a whole series of the same edits over and over
> they will miss that real conflict in the middle and lose some
> important change.
> 

diff -w, diff -b, diff -B

M. R.

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