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Re: Checking in files with trailing white space
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Checking in files with trailing white space |
Date: |
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:26:53 +0200 |
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 10:15:55 -0800
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>
> I've attached a list of repository-controlled files that are not UTF-8
> text files in the POSIX sense. Of the 433 such files, I count 181 Netpbm
> image data, 107 gzipped files (mostly gzipped text), 57 PNG files, 11
> PDF files, and there is a hodgepodge of assorted other formats. A few
> files are in the list merely because they lack a trailing newline (a
> problem for some tools, and POSIX says such files are not text files).
> (For a sense of the scale here, all this is out of 3695 files total in
> Emacs master right now.)
>
> Most of the files in this list are merely awkward and are not a GPL
> issue; these include the gzipped text files, the text files that use
> non-UTF-8 encodings, and the no-trailing-newline files. And many files
> are there because we have put object files into the source repository,
> where we really should be generate them as part of the build and limit
> the repository to source code; these include the PBM and PNG files (or
> at least I hope they do; I haven't checked).
There are no licensing issues with any of those, each one was verified
at the time, AFAIR.
As for generating them from text: feel free to scratch that itch, if
you want to.
> > Depends on the compression method, I guess. For some of them, we
> > cannot rely on the respective tools being available, so if that
> > particular kind of compression is needed for some test, having the
> > source file might not be good enough.
>
> We can assume gzip
Yes. Gzip was not what I had in mind.
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, (continued)
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/12
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Paul Eggert, 2016/12/13
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/13
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Paul Eggert, 2016/12/13
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/13
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Paul Eggert, 2016/12/13
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/13
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Paul Eggert, 2016/12/14
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/14
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Paul Eggert, 2016/12/14
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Alan Mackenzie, 2016/12/13
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Paul Eggert, 2016/12/13