Git merge improvement - "remove spaces/tabs from beginning of line and end of line" - Dušan Červenka

From: "Dušan Červenka | ACRIOS" <cervenka@acrios.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Git merge improvement - "remove spaces/tabs from beginning of line and end of line"
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 00:25:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2632907.cDO7J6XS3R@kuhadatko-gl552vw> (raw)

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Greetings,

i was interested if you already considered this as feature, or if you may 
consider this as good feature. I know that during merge every character need 
be considered. And at the end it will be. I described my problem to another 
developer and he named this feature as good noise merge reduction.

Issue:
Several times it happened that i added or removed condition in code but a lot 
of code stayed. Only indention was changed. If there was also other change on 
some line i had a conflict. And several times it happened that a lot of code 
was appended instead of replaced (if some line was similar with same 
indention). This made merging messed and confusing. If we would remove this 
spaces noise from beginning and end, we could get more acquired merge. What do 
you think? Of course this is only for looking for most matching lines. At the 
end the code should keep all necessary spaces.

Thank you very much for your opinion.

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