WTF?

[Michael Matz]

Hi,

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Jeff Law wrote:

> On 11/25/09 09:51, 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.
> >    
> I agree with Kenner here.  We've encouraged removal of trailing 
> whitespace in the past

Not as bulk changes that don't do anything else, rather only as part of 
changes that touch the relevant parts anyway.

> and I don't why this should be any different.  It does make things 
> marginally harder when dealing with branches,

And local patches.  Basically _no_ patch will apply anymore as HJ changed 
every single file.  That's not something marginally harder, it's terrible 
pointless thankless work created by a single 500 KB svn commit.  svn blame 
will now also point to HJ most of the time, wonderful!

> but the right way to deal with that problem is to avoid trailing 
> whitespace in the source tree to begin with.

In an ideal world, yes.  But it's not a clever idea to burn down the house 
just because the walls have some dots nobody cares about.


Ciao,
Michael.