[parted-devel] nuke trailing blanks *without* inducing conflicts

[Jim Meyering]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> FYI, the condition of Parted's sources has been a thorn
> in our side for too long, and I've just realized that at
> least part of that can be resolved easily: by removing all
> trailing blanks (let's call them TB, like the disease).
>
> Of course, when you say "global changes", everyone with a grain of
> version-control experience says "don't do that, it'll induce needless
> conflicts".  And they're right -- at first glance.  However, if you
> have an existing change, patch, branch etc. against the old TB-afflicted
> sources, you can easily adjust it to apply to the new, TB-cleaned
> sources.  Just filter it through this:

If anyone anticipates a problem with this, you have about an hour
in which to voice an objection.  Then it'll be too late.