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Re: WTF?
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Dave Korn wrote:
> Joseph S. Myers wrote:
>
> > Doing it right at the end of branch-to-trunk merges for a release (which
> > is where we are right now, just after merges from Graphite) is probably
> > the optimal timing in terms of minimising the amount of branches that will
> > need fixing up. The problem is doing it without warning or consensus.
>
> Yep. Given that, maybe we should make a global whitespace cleanup an
> official part of the release branching process? It would be nice to keep it
> from all building up again, and we could avoid the pain if it was regular and
> predictable.
What is the _point_ in doing this? Is there _any_ positive effect
of removing trailing whitespace? Does it looks like there are no bugs to
fix in gcc so that the pointless task of removing trailing whitespace
looks appealing??
Richard.