spaces before tabs

[Colin Percival]

At 06:25 15/03/2004, Bruce Evans wrote:
>On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Colin Percival wrote:
> > Thus spake style(9):
> > > Do not use more spaces than a tab will
> > > produce and do not use spaces in front of tabs.
> >
> >    There are somewhere around 6500 lines in 1000 files which violate 
> this final
> > rule.
>
>Only that many (counting all #define\040 etc)? :-)

   I miscounted.  Somewhere around 20000 lines have problems with
leading whitespace.  I'm not looking at non-leading whitespace.

> > Should I clean these up, or is it not worth bloating the repository for
> > such cosmetic fixes?
>
>It's too painful to do all at once IMO.

   Painful for whom?  I've got a 2.4MB patch sitting in front of
me which fixes most of these.

Colin Percival