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authorJosh Triplett <josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2007-07-16 02:41:37 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-16 12:05:50 -0400
commita923fd6ae7599aee63934ed13c3033fdefc7a18e (patch)
treeac1f5eac94ef7b6f3f92671146fc4be5a541a7fd /Documentation
parent9e8c4273ef4f631a896650bd2ade4c1b6487131b (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>
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@@ -218,6 +218,18 @@ no space after the prefix increment & decrement unary operators:
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219and no space around the '.' and "->" structure member operators. 219and no space around the '.' and "->" structure member operators.
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221Do not leave trailing whitespace at the ends of lines. Some editors with
222"smart" indentation will insert whitespace at the beginning of new lines as
223appropriate, so you can start typing the next line of code right away.
224However, some such editors do not remove the whitespace if you end up not
225putting a line of code there, such as if you leave a blank line. As a result,
226you end up with lines containing trailing whitespace.
227
228Git will warn you about patches that introduce trailing whitespace, and can
229optionally strip the trailing whitespace for you; however, if applying a series
230of patches, this may make later patches in the series fail by changing their
231context lines.
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222 Chapter 4: Naming 234 Chapter 4: Naming
223 235