Kai Tietz writes: > Andrew Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 13.03.2007 16:03:57: > > > Ian Lance Taylor writes: > > > Andrew Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > Kai Tietz writes: > > > > > > > > > I want to remove some trailing whitespaces from gcc > > > > > source as coding style demands. Also I wrote, while doing > > > > > a small tool for that, a feature to replace horiz. tabs > > > > > by spaces. But the question is by which width should be > > > > > used ? > > > > > > > > 8. > > > > > > But please do not turn tabs into spaces in the gcc source code. > > > > > > I think removing trailing whitespace would be OK, > > > > Please don't check it in, though! That would be really bad. It would > > do horrible things to diffs, particularly between branches. > > But I was questioned to do this stuff, for those files changed by a patch > of mine. So I tought, if I should do, than do it for the complete gcc (not > root) folder. How to process ?
Feel free to do it to your local copy. Don't do it to the gcc source code repository. Andrew.
