Re: [PATCH][Trivial] Delete trailing whitespace fromsound/soc/codecs/wm8994.c

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Sun Apr 08 2012 - 20:29:21 EST


On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Michael Witten wrote:

> >> While reading through sound/soc/codecs/wm8994.c I noticed a fair
> >> amount of trailing whitespace. This patch gets rid of it.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Jesper,
> >
> > is it really worth it? The code should have been fixed before merging,
> > yes, but once it's there, such fixups tend to only make people angry
> > (because they have to do unnecessary extra steps during git blame).
>
> If I may interject, I assume you mean that nobody wants to see the
> fact that somebody simply changed whitespace. However, the text of
> `git help blame' suggests that the `-w' flag obviates the issue:
>
> Ignore whitespace when comparing the parent's
> version and the childâs to find where the lines
> came from.
>
> Of course, I've never used it, so I may be mistaken in my
> interpretation.

That indeed does what it should do, but as it's not git default, then
quitting git blame and reruning it with '-w' seems to be equally annoying
to quitting git blame and reruning it with 'particular_commit~1"

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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