Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I was thinking more about consistency than 'correctness' in this > case, actually. Typical scenario would be: patch is created for a file > using a given whitespace convention (e.g. 4 spaces). File is updated > to match the rest of the project (tabs). Patch would now introduce the > wrong whitespace convention for the new lines. You are assuming that the patch is always based on a wrong convention and the target always uses the right convention. In general, however, you cannot tell which way the "consisitency" should go --- often you have to apply a patch based on a fixed codebase to an older version. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html