Subject: Re: the war on trailing whitespace

From: Andreas Ericsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:10:55 +0100

Uwe Zeisberger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
>>I think the question is whether completely empty lines are also ignored 
>>by Python, or if they start a new block of code. Whatever the case, it 
>>must hold true for both 2.3 and 2.4.
> 
> see
> 	http://www.python.org/doc/2.2.3/ref/blank-lines.html
> 	http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.5/ref/blank-lines.html
> 	http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.2/ref/blank-lines.html
> 

So in essence, a multi-line statement is closed when a completely empty 
line is found, which means that making git internals recognize and strip 
such lines will result in Python code never being manageable by git.

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