Re: [PATCH v2] .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option

[Vincent MAILHOL]

On Tue. 11 juin 2024 at 16:27, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Some editors (like the vim variants), when seeing "trim_whitespace"
> decide to do just that for all of the whitespace in the file you are
> saving, even if it is not on a line that you have modified.  This plays
> havoc with diffs and is NOT something that should be intended.
>
> As the "only trim whitespace on modified files" is not part of the
> editorconfig standard yet, just delete these lines from the
> .editorconfig file so that we don't end up with diffs that are
> automatically rejected by maintainers for containing things they
> shouldn't.
>
> Cc: Danny Lin <danny@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Íñigo Huguet <ihuguet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mickaël Salaün <mic@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 5a602de99797 ("Add .editorconfig file for basic formatting")
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, this v2 is way better!

Acked-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> v2: - only remove the lines, don't move the whole file to Documentation
>     - add Fixes: tag
>
>
>  .editorconfig | 3 ---
>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/.editorconfig b/.editorconfig
> index 854773350cc5..29a30ccfc07b 100644
> --- a/.editorconfig
> +++ b/.editorconfig
> @@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ root = true
>  [{*.{awk,c,dts,dtsi,dtso,h,mk,s,S},Kconfig,Makefile,Makefile.*}]
>  charset = utf-8
>  end_of_line = lf
> -trim_trailing_whitespace = true
>  insert_final_newline = true
>  indent_style = tab
>  indent_size = 8
> @@ -13,7 +12,6 @@ indent_size = 8
>  [*.{json,py,rs}]
>  charset = utf-8
>  end_of_line = lf
> -trim_trailing_whitespace = true
>  insert_final_newline = true
>  indent_style = space
>  indent_size = 4
> @@ -26,7 +24,6 @@ indent_size = 8
>  [*.yaml]
>  charset = utf-8
>  end_of_line = lf
> -trim_trailing_whitespace = unset
>  insert_final_newline = true
>  indent_style = space
>  indent_size = 2
> --
> 2.45.2
>