Question for removing trailing whitespaces (not vertical tab) from source

[Andrew Haley]

Kai Tietz writes:
 > Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote on 13.03.2007 16:03:57:
 > 
 > > Ian Lance Taylor writes:
 > >  > Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:
 > >  > 
 > >  > > Kai Tietz writes:
 > >  > > 
 > >  > >  > I want to remove some trailing whitespaces from gcc
 > >  > >  > source as coding style demands. Also I wrote, while doing
 > >  > >  > a small tool for that, a feature to replace horiz. tabs
 > >  > >  > by spaces. But the question is by which width should be
 > >  > >  > used ?
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > 8.
 > >  > 
 > >  > But please do not turn tabs into spaces in the gcc source code.
 > >  > 
 > >  > I think removing trailing whitespace would be OK,
 > > 
 > > Please don't check it in, though!  That would be really bad.  It would
 > > do horrible things to diffs, particularly between branches.
 > 
 > But I was questioned to do this stuff, for those files changed by a patch 
 > of mine. So I tought, if I should do, than do it for the complete gcc (not 
 > root) folder. How to process ?

Feel free to do it to your local copy.  Don't do it to the gcc source
code repository.

Andrew.