Re: 2273 lines in 170 files consists of only space and tabulators

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:09:11PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 28.07.2009, 20:19 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan:
> > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:04:56PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> > > Am Samstag, den 06.06.2009, 21:53 -0400 schrieb Pavel Roskin:
> > > > On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 12:25 +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> > > > > address@hidden:~/grub/grub2.git$ rgrep -E "^[[:blank:]]+$" *|wc -l
> > > > > 2273
> > > > > address@hidden:~/grub/grub2.git$ rgrep -E "^[[:blank:]]+$" *|sed -e 
> > > > > 's/:.*//'|uniq|wc -l
> > > > > 170
> > > > > 
> > > > > Anyone wants me to do 
> > > > > find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i -r -e 's/^[[:blank:]]+$//'
> > > > > or does someone object?
> > > > > [:blank:] doestn't contain these ^L chars.
> > > > > 
> > > > > By the way `git diff --color' shows if you introduce such a line with
> > > > > red, but strangely not when you remove one.
> > > > 
> > > > Since we have linear development, it shouldn't be a problem for merging
> > > > patches.  Besides, "patch" can be told to ignore whitespace differences.
> > > > 
> > > > However, I would prefer that we remove all trailing whitespace, not just
> > > > that on empty lines.  That is, remove "^" from the sed expression.
> > > 
> > > Ok I just commited this.
> > 
> > Do you mean removing all whitespace?  I think you forgot to commit it.
> > 
> > Though, I'd prefer if we don't do this in one megacommit.  If we do it
> > gradually, we avoid breaking patches.  This makes work easier for branches
> > and for distributors (which essentially operate as a branch).
> 
> I did this in r2293
> So you even didn't notice this. Good :)

But there was no ChangeLog entry?

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