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: Sun, 23 Aug 2020 00:42:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83imddcv4m.fsf@gnu.org> <878se9wigu.fsf@gnus.org> <878se9mkqa.fsf@randomsample> <87o8n4l6o0.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> 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="23275"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, eliz@gnu.org, deng@randomsample.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Sergey Organov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 23 06:42:57 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 1k9hqK-0005ur-By for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2020 06:42:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37440 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k9hqJ-0006JZ-F0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2020 00:42:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47072) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k9hps-0005t5-Sp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2020 00:42:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:49087) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k9hps-00056D-2Q; Sun, 23 Aug 2020 00:42:28 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1k9hpq-0000Fc-Ue; Sun, 23 Aug 2020 00:42:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87o8n4l6o0.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> (message from Sergey Organov on Fri, 21 Aug 2020 11:55:27 +0300) 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:254131 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. ]]] > > If git itself doesn't have all the facilities for ignoring trivial > > commits that we would want, we can add those facilities in various ways, > > with patches to git or scripts. We can offer the patches upstream. > Git has various options to ignore whitespace changes during merge: People did not spell out precisely which "tools" they thought would get confused by whitespace-only changes. I got the impression they were not talking specifically and only about merging, but I don't actually know. Perhaps someone should say. -- 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)