[MPlayer-dev-eng] Trailing whitespace removal and precommit hooks

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 07:24:30AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >is anyone against installing a precommit hook that will disallow
> >adding trailing whitespace? As a preparation to that it would also be
> >necessary to remove all that are currently there in a cosmetics
> >patch... I am in favour of it, and also of doing it in a way that
> >will disallow whitespace-only lines (IIRC someone preferred to keep
> >them, if that is so, how important is that?).
> 
> That was me. No one else agreed with me. I'm still very strongly of the
> opinion that such lines have leading whitespace, not trailing
> whitespace, and that not only is its its presence appropriate but its
> absence would be inappropriate - but my voice doesn't carry much weight
> around here as far as the code goes (nor should it, given my
> contributions to date), so I don't expect the change to be aborted on
> that account.

FWIW, I agree with you.

Rich