Re: master 50020d026c: Untabify rcirc.el

[Philip Kaludercic]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>>
>>>     Untabify rcirc.el
>>
>> We don't do whitespace changes like this because it makes it more
>> difficult to follow historical changes 
>
> My apologies, I didn't know that there was a general rule like this.
> The last few times I had been working on rcirc I always ran into issues
> with whitespaces whenever indenting a function.  Every patch had
> unrelated whitespace changes that had to be reverted to that the
> historical record isn't polluted.
>
> On a related note, I believe there has been a need to reorder rcirc to
> make it easier to follow along for a while.  But it goes without saying
> that that would break the git history far more than this change.
>
>>                                        (and applying any pending
>> patches).
>
> That shouldn't be an issue, because git am/apply can ignore whitespace.

I've also just found out that git blame supports this: Setting
`vc-git-annotate-switches' to "-w" ignores all the whitespace changes
when using vc-annotate.