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Re: Patch Submission Policy [Doc Patch]
On 23/02/2008, Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hm, I think that the '-b' option will not change any line count, nor
> will it affect any lines that have other changes.
Feel free to use the -b option, apply the patch to pristine sources
and rediff without the -b option. The -b option does not just ignore
the whitespace cleanup done by your editor, it ignores all whitespace
changes.
> The only difference should be a cleaner (and shorter) patch.
The -b option shouldn't make any difference for this, since your patch
should not contain arbitrary whitespace changes anyway. If your editor
changes whitespace, turn off that feature for GCC sources.
I had to turn off whitespace-cleanup for emacs.
Cheers,
Manuel.