WTF?

[Richard Guenther]

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Richard Kenner wrote:

> > Can someone please remove this revision from the subversion database
> > on the server and fix things up?  If that's not possible at least
> > the revision should be reverted.
> 
> Why the latter?  I agree with the problems this can cause, but if they
> can't be fixed by removing it from the database, why revert it?  All things
> being equal, trailing blanks in fact aren't a good idea.

Because it makes branch merging a nightmare and all patches people
keep are hosed and won't apply anymore.

And because it wasn't approved and earlier suggestions were shot down
quickly.

Richard.