Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com> writes:

quoted text
> I was thinking more about consistency than 'correctness'  in this
> case, actually. Typical scenario would be: patch is created for a file
> using a given whitespace convention (e.g. 4 spaces). File is updated
> to match the rest of the project (tabs). Patch would now introduce the
> wrong whitespace convention for the new lines.

You are assuming that the patch is always based on a wrong convention and
the target always uses the right convention.  In general, however, you
cannot tell which way the "consisitency" should go --- often you have to
apply a patch based on a fixed codebase to an older version.


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