From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: whitespace-only changes
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 23:51:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1k9KYk-0002UE-Bp@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv7dtsw3kt.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 21 Aug 2020 09:13:41 -0400)
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> More useful would be to make the tools aware of file where whitespace
> changes are (mostly) not significant so they can auto-resolve
> some conflicts.
Can you say more concretely what that would mean? What is the job
you suggest they do?
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-22 3:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-20 3:06 whitespace-only changes Richard Stallman
2020-08-20 8:04 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-08-20 13:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-20 13:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-20 14:54 ` David Engster
2020-08-21 3:33 ` Richard Stallman
2020-08-21 8:55 ` Sergey Organov
2020-08-23 4:42 ` Richard Stallman
2020-08-20 20:50 ` Daniel Martín
2020-08-20 20:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-20 21:07 ` Daniel Martín
2020-08-21 13:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-22 3:51 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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