"Dimitrie O. Paun" dpaun@rogers.com writes:
I think it should be turned off. It causes a lot of grief, for very little gain, if any. Moreover, now you have a tool in the tree that does that automatically, and cleverly.
Well, that's precisely the point, the tool is only useful if the sources are reasonably clean to start with. Otherwise running the tool is going to create thousands of differences and that makes it useless. If some people use the tool then everybody has to use it, otherwise it's a constant fight between adding and removing spaces.
If you think whitespaces are a problem, *you* apply it say, once a year. Or every 5 years, I don't care.
Personally I don't think it's a problem at all. I'm happy to ignore trailing spaces and send all patches that attempt to remove them to /dev/null. Patrik may feel differently though <g>