[Koha-devel] Git whitespace whining

[Chris Cormack]

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Rick Welykochy <rick at praxis.com.au> wrote:
> Andrew Moore wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Rick Welykochy <rick at praxis.com.au> wrote:
>>> I propose we disable it.
>>
>> I think:
>>
>> "git-config core.whitespace=nowarn"
>>
>> will do that for you.
>>
>> if not, something really similar will.
>>
>> hope it helps.
>
>
> Thanks ... will look into disabling it for me.
>
> Why not just disable it in git? Period.
>
> Otherwise each person that joins development will go through the
> same useless and time wasting process of dealing with these
> messages.
>
> Once again: people efficiency.

Because I like the whitespace warnings, and try to fix them.
Just like perl, with git there is more than one way to do things.

Whitespace can cause mess and unnesecary merges.

Just because you don't like the warnings doesn't mean that others also don't.

Chris