Miserlou/WhitespaceBot — Issue #7: Watch out for negative karma
Author: jean
Created: 2012-02-26 05:39:39+00:00
State: open

"This is possibly the most pointless proposed commit of all time." https://github.com/danchoi/vmail/pull/61

"I have wondered how long it would take until the invention of @github SPAM! BE GONE!" https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/pull/882

The bot seems to create pull requests that smush together lots of unrelated commits, e.g. https://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit/pull/125

Before I contribute to projects, I often need to do a cleanup (mixed tabs/spaces, inconsistent indentation, whitespace-only lines, mixed unix/dos format). This would be more valuable than twiddling trailing whitespace, which is likely to just add commit noise. But it would be harder to do safely automatically.

This should be strictly opt-in and configurable for project style, your current MO will get you labeled spammy.