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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] git-apply: add tests for stripping of leading and
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 01:44:46AM +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:
> 
> >> It may be valid, some projects use tabs for indentation and spaces
> >> for alignment, e.g.:
> >
> > Yeah, I know.  I was hoping that the stripspace behavior was already
> > specific enough to the linux-kernel style that we could just assume that 
> > it was only used by developers on projects with the same style.
> 
> Actually I would consider linux kernel an example of such project
> with spaces for alignment. Except that current tools are not to
> the task. Someday...

I guess I haven't followed previous arguments on the subject, but based
on checkpatch.pl I was assuming the tabs-whenever-possible policy had
won out.

Anyway, I can only care about whitespace for so long....

--b.