Re: [boost] [Intrusive] Cleaning up trailing white space

Subject: Re: [boost] [Intrusive] Cleaning up trailing white space
From: Olaf van der Spek (ml_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-05-29 03:34:02

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Lars Viklund <zao_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Can't the script be ran once for the entire repo?
>
> The downside of making "pointless" changes like that is that you get a
> commit that will look like the file was changed, effectively making all
> diffs across that commit have lots of modifications obscuring any real
> changes.

Tell diff to ignore whitespace (changes).
But yeah, it might be a bit problematic.

Olaf