Re: [git patch] urgent e1000 fix

Denis Vlasenko [off-list ref] wrote:

On Friday 24 June 2005 02:33, Linus Torvalds wrote:

quoted

To actually allow real fuzz or to allow real whitespace differences in the
patch data itself is a _much_ bigger issue than this trivial patch
corruption, and I'd prefer to avoid going there if at all possible.

How about automatic stripping of _trailing_ whitespace on all incoming
patches? IIRC no file type (C, sh, Makefile, you name it) depends on
conservation of it, thus it's 100% safe.

Works iff the patched code is similarly mangled first... I can hear a
distant howling on LKML on the bare thought of proposing this.

You also can't assume that spaces at the end of lines make no difference
for all uses people might want to put git to.
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