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From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] checkkpatch (in)sanity ?
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On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 05:47:59AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> I generally don't run it on my own patches, mostly out
> of possibly misplaced confidence in my own adherence to
> the nominal kernel style.  It sometimes leads to mild
> regret over things like whitespace defects.

In the specific case of whitespace defects, does git diff not catch
those?

For that matter, should we add a .gitattributes file to the kernel
enabling additional whitespace errors git knows how to catch?  git.git
has such a file.