[darcs-users] trailing whitespace

[Ganesh Sittampalam]

On Wed, 13 May 2009, Jason Dagit wrote:

> Hmm...I was commenting from the assumption that any change on a line means
> the whole line is included in the patch / diff / conflict, and that if we
> only update whitespace when we edit a given line that it is no different
> than any other sort of change or conflict.  Do you feel that changes at the
> trailing end of lines are more likely to result in spurious conflicts?

No, but it's easy to change trailing whitespace accidentally leading to a 
unintentional edit to a line. If the convention is that trailing 
whitespace is forbidden, that problem goes away.

Ganesh