[RFC] ignore white space changes in commit mails

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Monday 11 January 2010, André Wöbbeking wrote:
> 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.

Which means instead of running svn diff once you'd have to run it twice, 
once for the white listed files and once for the non-white listed 
files.


Regards,
Ingo
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