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From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, masahiroy@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Danny Lin" <danny@kdrag0n.dev>,
	"Íñigo Huguet" <ihuguet@redhat.com>,
	"Mickaël Salaün" <mic@digikod.net>,
	"Vincent Mailhol" <mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 09:16:14 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877cetjrkh.fsf@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2024061137-jawless-dipped-e789@gregkh>

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.

-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-06-13  6:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-06-11  7:27 [PATCH v2] .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-06-11  8:16 ` Vincent MAILHOL
2024-06-13  6:16 ` Jani Nikula [this message]
2024-06-13  6:38   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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