[Koha-devel] Git whitespace whining

[Chris Cormack]

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Rick Welykochy <rick at praxis.com.au> wrote:
> I am new to git and its brain twisting operation. Nonetheless the Koha
> version control system is starting to work with me.
>
> The gazillions of warning messages that its spews out about trailing
> white space produce so much useless noise that I cannot see the real
> warnings or error message without considerable effort.
>
> This warning message provides no useful information.
>
> I propose we disable it.
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>
> I you disagree then please provide an example of a source code file,
> language processor or other instance where trailing white space actaully
> can cause trouble. I'm at a loss to find such.
>
Why don't you just disable it for you?

It's probably an option you can set with git-config. Thats the beauty
with git being a distributed versioning system, don't like whitespace
warnings, turn them off for you. And everyone else can just keep doing
whatever they want.

Chris