re: standards/49435 (Remove trailing blank characters from the code-base)

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR standards/49435; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: standards-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
    netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, n54%gmx.com@localhost
Subject: re: standards/49435 (Remove trailing blank characters from the code-base)
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 17:07:11 +1100

 commiting 10k lines of changes just to remove white spaces
 induces a lot of random changes that don't fix any bugs or
 fix any real problem.  it also causes problems with merging
 code -- both for netbsd developers, and for 3rd party ones
 taking our code.
 
 the only time it's valid to perform these sorts of mass
 edits is when you're already changing the file.
 
 
 .mrg.