On May 3, 2011, at 10:27 PM, Michael Witten wrote:
> On Tue, 3 May 2011 22:52:25 +0200 (CEST), Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>
>> <On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, Michael Witten wrote:
>>> sed -i "s/[ $(printf '\t')]\{1,\}\$//" trunk/gcc/doc/extend.texi
>>
>> I believe we usually don't do whitespace changes just for the sake
>> of cleaning up things.
>>
>> Unless someone else indicates otherwise, I believe this patch is
>> rejected.
>
> To what do we owe this tradition other than laziness?
By flat out rejecting style fixing patches, you preserve the annotations made
by vc-blame (svn blame). That's the only reason that I am aware of. Laziness
can't be the reason to reject the hard work of someone that wants to clean up
the code.
Like others, I don't find that compelling enough personally.
