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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: master has switched from Automake to GNU Make |
Date: | Wed, 12 Apr 2017 07:38:53 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 |
On 04/12/2017 02:28 AM, martin rudalics wrote:
Doesn't this mean that many people don't really care about trailing whitespace?
No, as I recall the Git configuration was made optional because some developers objected to autogen.sh automatically setting transfer.fsckObjects in the Git configuration. I do not know the basis for these objections.
autogen.sh reflects a compromise among various viewpoints. Lots of people (including me) don't particularly like it in its current form, which is a common property of compromises.
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