WTF?

[Richard Guenther]

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Richard Kenner wrote:

> > In my mind it's very simple: trailing whitespace poses exactly _no_ 
> > problem (except of being against the coding standard), 
> 
> It's against the coding standards for a very good reason, which is that it
> makes patching harder because you have lines that compare differently but
> look identical.  So removing them, while making some patches harder to
> apply, makes others easier into the future.
> 
> Like others, my feeling is that the biggest problem here is the timing and
> lack of notice.

But different timing or a notice wouldn't fix one of my no longer
applying patches.  If you can offer advice on how to teach quilt
(which I belive uses patch) to ignore whitespace changes when
applying patches then more power to you - the only tool that
seems to be able to ignore whitespace changes is diff.

Richard.