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| author | Josh Triplett <josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2007-07-15 23:41:37 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-16 09:05:50 -0700 |
| commit | a923fd6ae7599aee63934ed13c3033fdefc7a18e (patch) | |
| tree | ac1f5eac94ef7b6f3f92671146fc4be5a541a7fd /Documentation/CodingStyle | |
| parent | 9e8c4273ef4f631a896650bd2ade4c1b6487131b (diff) | |
CodingStyle: add information about trailing whitespace
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/CodingStyle')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/CodingStyle | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle index b49b92edb396..00bffa7b740e 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingStyle +++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle @@ -218,6 +218,18 @@ no space after the prefix increment & decrement unary operators: and no space around the '.' and "->" structure member operators. +Do not leave trailing whitespace at the ends of lines. Some editors with +"smart" indentation will insert whitespace at the beginning of new lines as +appropriate, so you can start typing the next line of code right away. +However, some such editors do not remove the whitespace if you end up not +putting a line of code there, such as if you leave a blank line. As a result, +you end up with lines containing trailing whitespace. + +Git will warn you about patches that introduce trailing whitespace, and can +optionally strip the trailing whitespace for you; however, if applying a series +of patches, this may make later patches in the series fail by changing their +context lines. + Chapter 4: Naming |