Re: trivial: reiserfs whitespace

[jw schultz]

On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 12:59:37AM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 11:53:25AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> 
>     But doing it slowly, together with other patches, is not a bad
>     idea.
> 
> Well, in that case is there some kind of bk or command that can be
> made to automagically run to purge white-space from the end
> patches/changesets as they are produced?  It would also be nice to
> have hunks such as[1]:
> 
>      --- 1   Tue May 28 00:56:35 2002
>      +++ 2   Tue May 28 00:56:34 2002
>      @@ -1 +1 @@
>      -  
>      +		
> 
> stripped completely as they have no functional value and just add
> bloat patches and such like.
> 
> This can be done with CVS but as it works very differently to bk
> (which to be honest I really don't understand very well at all) I'm
> not even sure if the above suggestion is meaningful.
> 
>    --cw

CW makes an interesting point.  Perhaps bk could be
configured to check for / +\t/ and /\s+$/ on changed lines,
and possibly their contigious neighbors, and ask about purging
the superfluous whitespace.  Comments Larry?

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