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

Jani Nikula
2024-06-13T06:16:21Z

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/?

BR,
Jani.

> editorconfig standard yet, just delete these lines from the
> .editorconfig file so that we don't end up with diffs that are
> automatically rejected by maintainers for containing things they
> shouldn't.

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Jani Nikula, Intel