[webkit-dev] Whitespace changes

Adam Barth abarth at webkit.org
Wed Aug 26 22:40:39 PDT 2009


After discussing this with Oliver, I realized that I misremembered
http://www.mail-archive.com/webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org/msg07720.html
as being more positive about style changes.

Apologies,
Adam


On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Oliver Hunt<oliver at apple.com> wrote:
> Adam just landed a fairly substantial patch that did nothing but remove
> whitespace from the ends of lines.  While we had a thread about style
> changes earlier, it was in the context of changes that actually bring code
> into line with style guidelines in a way that actually effects the visible
> layout of code.
>
> I do not believe that patches such as r47808 should be considered valuable
> as the changes have no visible effect on code layout, but do impact our
> ability to effectively use tools like svn or git blame, however the
> situation is slightly ambiguous on this matter so i thought i should bring
> it up on the mailing list.
>
> Does anyone else have thoughts on this?
>
> --Oliver
>
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