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> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 09:21:55 -0800
> 
> When we post patches, we generally create them
> using `diff -c -w' AFAIK, which would seem to suggest an agnostic (or at
> least a loose) approach to indenting whitespace.

Actually, you should drop the -w when you generate patches, because it
causes trouble for Patch (unless the -l switch to Patch is used, which
is easily forgotten).