Re: [SCRIPT] Remove "space damage" from patches

[Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>]

Oleg Verych wrote:
>> From: Richard Knutsson
>> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel
>> Subject: [SCRIPT] Remove "space damage" from patches
>> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:37:01 +0100
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>> Hello Andrew and all
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> Hallo.
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>> I recently tried "git-apply" on the 2.6.20-rc6-mm1 patch and found it to complain about white-spaces.
>> So as a mean to (hopefully) cut down on these nasty white-spaces (and sometimes tabs) I wrote this
>> little script. All it does is checking (lines that are going to be added) for spaces before tabs
>> and trailing spaces/tabs. I tried it on 2.6.20-rc6-mm1 and it seem to work well
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>> If there is someone interested, _please_ take it. Any suggestion are welcomed :)
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>> Richard Knutsson
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> Nack, big and fat. It's userspace problem.
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> If our "developers" can't use or update their every-day-tools, it's a
> shame. And this is not trolling: i'm using Jed and GNU Emacs, both are
> ok with whitespace "production".
Oh, I hope I didn't give the impression I wanted it in the kernel (that 
is why i labeled it as SCRIPT and not PATCH), as you said it is a 
userspace problem. I just thought a simple script to remove those 
whitespace could help in an imperfect world. I prefer kate since then 
you can see where the tabs begins (and other features).

Richard Knutsson