Re: [PATCH] cleanpatch: a script to clean up stealth whitespace added by a patch

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 02:45:06PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> This script is a companion to the "cleanfile" script.  This cleans
> up a patch in unified diff format *before* it is applied.  Note that
> the empty lines at the end of file detection *requires* that the diff was
> taken with at least one line of context around each hunk, or bad things
> will happen.
> 
> This script cleans up various classes of stealth whitespace.  In
> particular, it cleans up:
> 
> - Whitespace (spaces or tabs)before newline;
> - DOS line endings (CR before LF);
> - Space before tab (spaces are deleted or converted to tabs);
> - Empty lines at end of file.
> 
> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>

This and the companion "cleanfile" has been applied to kbuild.git.

	Sam
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