Re: [PATCH] Remove trailing whitespaces from documentation

On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 4:50 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Vladimir Rusinov <vrusinov(at)google(dot)com> writes:
> > Therefore, I propose this patch.
>
> Right now is a really bad time to do that; what it will mostly accomplish
> is to break back-patching of doc fixes for little benefit.
>

ack. As I said, it's a proposal and I'm not too attached to it.
Glad it sparked some discussions though.

That said, I don't fully buy this argument: diff is very simple. Merge
conflicts during backporting will be trivial to fix, although a bit more
annoying.

> There is work afoot to convert the documentation to xml. If that
> succeeds, it'd make sense to strip trailing spaces (and start enforcing
> that in .gitattributes) when we do that, since it'll be a back-patch
> breakpoint anyway. But right now the PITA factor outweighs the benefit.
>

What is the ETA for this work to be complete (or fail and be abandoned)?

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