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

Subject: Re: [boost] [Intrusive] Cleaning up trailing white space
From: Daniel James (dnljms_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-05-29 04:00:17

On 28 May 2012 23:57, John Wiegley <jwiegley_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>>>>> Dave Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
>> Yup.  But that's not so great either when you start working in someone
>> else's file and it starts adding spurious changes.  And yes, I've tried
>> packages that try to be smarter about that.  Didn't work for me, so far.
>
> I think I found a package once that only eliminates spurious whitespace in
> lines that you've changed.  But yeah, it wasn't smart enough to be
> worthwhile.  I've never found a good answer to this either.

It seems too obvious to mention, but I've found that using colour
diffs with git (which highlights whitespace issues that have been
introduced) and cleaning them up using 'git rebase --whitespace=fix'
works for me. I think I've seen a git hook somewhere for automatically
cleaning up new changes.