The patch titled
CodingStyle: add information about trailing whitespace
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
codingstyle-add-information-about-trailing-whitespace.patch
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Subject: CodingStyle: add information about trailing whitespace
From: Josh Triplett <josht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/CodingStyle | 12 ++++++++++++
1 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff -puN Documentation/CodingStyle~codingstyle-add-information-about-trailing-whitespace Documentation/CodingStyle
--- a/Documentation/CodingStyle~codingstyle-add-information-about-trailing-whitespace
+++ a/Documentation/CodingStyle
@@ -218,6 +218,18 @@ no space after the prefix increment & de
and no space around the '.' and "->" structure member operators.
+Do not leave trailing whitespace at the ends of lines. Some editors with
+"smart" indentation will insert whitespace at the beginning of new lines as
+appropriate, so you can start typing the next line of code right away.
+However, some such editors do not remove the whitespace if you end up not
+putting a line of code there, such as if you leave a blank line. As a result,
+you end up with lines containing trailing whitespace.
+
+Git will warn you about patches that introduce trailing whitespace, and can
+optionally strip the trailing whitespace for you; however, if applying a series
+of patches, this may make later patches in the series fail by changing their
+context lines.
+
Chapter 4: Naming
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from josht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
codingstyle-add-information-about-trailing-whitespace.patch
codingstyle-add-information-about-editor-modelines.patch
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