[RFC] ignore white space changes in commit mails

[André Wöbbeking]

On Sunday 10 January 2010, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Sunday 10 January 2010, Michael Pyne wrote:
> > On Sunday 10 January 2010 13:59:36 André Wöbbeking wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > as more and more developers are removing trailing white spaces
> > > automatically many commit mails are cluttered by these changes.
> > > Please ignore them in commit mails.
> > 
> > Perhaps we could automatically SVN_SILENT these changes but I would
> > not strip them out entirely, there's a risk that if we mess up the
> > implementation of that feature that someone could slip something
> > malicious into a "whitespace- only" change (no I don't have an
> > example, merely paranoia ;)
> 
> For obvious reasons white space changes must not be ignored for
> python files.

So a white list of allowed file types should be used.


Cheers,
André