From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: whitespace-only changes Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 23:51:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19488"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 22 05:51:45 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1k9KZE-0004x8-Oh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 22 Aug 2020 05:51:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50416 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k9KZD-0001ve-Rf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2020 23:51:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49654) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k9KYm-0001VI-4e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2020 23:51:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:59603) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k9KYl-0004xX-Ff; Fri, 21 Aug 2020 23:51:15 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1k9KYk-0002UE-Bp; Fri, 21 Aug 2020 23:51:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 21 Aug 2020 09:13:41 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:254100 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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? -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)