Subject: Re: [PATCH] xdiff/xemit.c (xdl_find_func): Elide trailing white space in a context header.

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:06:20 +0200

Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>
>> This removes trailing blanks from git-generated diff headers
>> the same way a similar patch did that for GNU diff:
> 
> NO!
> 
> This is _wrong_
> 
> You should only remove the space IF IT IS THE ONLY THING ON THE WHOLE 
> LINE!

If I understand the description of this patch given by the mentioned article
and example therein (Jim, you should include appropriate parts of mentioned
email in commit message, not just provide link to it), trailing spaces are
removed from extended diff header, i.e. the "which function are we in",
diff -p header. Not from diff body.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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