cjdb added a comment.

In D148835#4286924 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D148835#4286924>, @aaron.ballman 
wrote:

> In D148835#4286905 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D148835#4286905>, @erichkeane 
> wrote:
>
>> In D148835#4284871 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D148835#4284871>, @cjdb wrote:
>>
>>> I've had some very good input about why this probably shouldn't go ahead: 
>>> git history erasure :')
>>
>> While that is a common criticism, if we're going to do this at all, we 
>> should do it in a single patch, as we can use --ignore-rev: 
>> https://akrabat.com/ignoring-revisions-with-git-blame/
>>
>> This is a pretty common thing to do, and I don't think it should prevent us 
>> from doing this, which I think is the 'greater good' here.  The alternative 
>> is to continue having a bunch of unrelated patches piece-meal 'erase' git 
>> history as people accidentally fix these.
>
> We already ignore blame revisions like this today: 
> https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/.git-blame-ignore-revs

Oh cool, I had no idea this was possible :)

> However, I'd ask that we hold off on this change unless we have some tooling 
> in place that rejects new additions of trailing whitespace, otherwise we're 
> going to end up in this exact same situation again in another week or two. 
> When CI starts failing on patches that insert *new* trailing whitespace, then 
> I'm all for this change because we can fix it once and hopefully keep it 
> fixed.

Since Clang doesn't have pre-commit CI, how can we meaningfully progress here?


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