Re: whitespace-only changes

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> The tool is Git, and it will treat any change as significant.  I'm not
> aware of a Git option to ignore some changes based on the log
> messages.

Me neither, but it sure would be nice to be able to tell git "this is
not a functional change" (just think of the yearly copyright notice
update).

git has no way of verifying that it's a non-functional change, of
course, so it would just be a hint to the UI.  That could then be used
by nefarious people to sneak in functional changes but mark them as
non-functional.

So it's probably not a workable idea.

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