Re: [PATCH v2] .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-06-13T06:38:22Z

On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 09:16:14AM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jun 2024, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > Some editors (like the vim variants), when seeing "trim_whitespace"
> > decide to do just that for all of the whitespace in the file you are
> > saving, even if it is not on a line that you have modified. This plays
> > havoc with diffs and is NOT something that should be intended.
> >
> > As the "only trim whitespace on modified files" is not part of the
>
> Do you mean s/files/lines/?

Yes. I'll edit this when I commit it as it's driving me crazy already
and I think it needs to get to Linus "soon" before we start to see lots
of busted patches sent to maintainers...

thanks,

greg k-h