Re: [hatari-devel] Trailing whitespace removal

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 10/16/20 8:17 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> Am Tue, 13 Oct 2020 13:10:00 +0300
> schrieb Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Would it be OK to commit changes that remove trailing whitespace
....
> Not sure ... that looks like quite a lot of code churn for little use?
> I normally only change that for files that I want to edit afterwards
> anyway, and also only if it really bugs me...
>
> I think we should
> a) wait for the release first, to avoid that we have accidential
> regressions due to this (it's unlikely, but still could happen)
> b) add a statement to doc/coding.txt first that says that trailing
> white spaces should be avoided.

Ok, that sounds like a plan, thanks!

We might even consider putting something like this to Git hooks to 
enforce it:
	sed -i 's/[\t ]*$//'


	- Eero