[Ovirt-devel] coming soon: prohibition on pushing bad-whitespace-adding changes

[Jim Meyering]

"Hugh O. Brock" <hbrock at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 02:11:43PM -0400, mark wagner wrote:
>> Will this only impact a push that adds bad whitespace or will it
>> also impact a file that may already have bad whitespace but I
>> only touch a line that doesn't have "bad" whitespace ?
>>
>> I guess I'm trying to determine if we just need to go through
>> and clean all the files now.  If we the check is only for files
>> that add new bad whitespace, then we are living with the existing
>> bad whitespace already in the code...
>
> Hey Mark. My understanding is that the change only impacts the
> introduction of new whitespace -- i.e. git is looking only at changed
> and new lines. I'm reluctant to do a wholesale cleanup since will
> represent a big change.

That's right.
It will affect only new and changed lines.