Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Documentation/SubmittingPatches: emacs whitespace tip

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:28:39 -0800

[email-masked] writes:

> Signed-off-by: jidanni <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  Documentation/SubmittingPatches |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> index ba07c8c..7b64343 100644
> --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> @@ -442,6 +442,8 @@ whitespaces (fatal in patches).  Running 'C-u g' to display the
>  message in raw form before using '|' to run the pipe can work
>  this problem around.
>  
> +Inside gnus or not, a (setq-default show-trailing-whitespace t) in
> +one's ~/.emacs file will reduce whitespace embarrassment incidents.

What bothered me a lot more is that this part (and only this part) talks
about patch acceptance tip, not patch submission tip.  The Gnus/Emacs
section needs a total rewrite, I think.

Having a separate patch acceptance tip is fine, but I do not think it
belongs to SubmittingPatches document, and the current text certainly does
not mesh well with its neighbours.