Re: Strip trailing whitespace

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Simon Large
<simon.tortoisesvn_at_googlemail.com> wrote:
> That would have to be supported in the subversion library, like
> svn:eol-style, and I don't think that will ever happen. It is not the
> job of a version control system to change your files!

Things like keywords also change files...
A VCS is the central component that stores your files and as such not
an unlogical place to do this kind of thing.

> The only reason
> svn:eol-style is there is for multi-platform support.

> You could add your own trailing space stripper as part of a pre-commit
> or start-commit hook. The problem is that in changing the files it may
> also change the modified status one way or the other.

Aren't those hooks client-side as well? Disadvantage of that is
ensuring every client has those hooks.

Olaf

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