Re: git and trailing whitespace

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 05/05/2009 05:00 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:

> Anyway, Owen said he didn't want to fight this fight. I guess I can
> understand that, and I don't really want to fight this fight
> either. Nonetheless I think this would be good to have and the least I
> can do is mentioning this on desktop-devel and asking for opinions. So
> here I go.
>
> Opinions?

The default git pre-commit scripts (disabled by default) has a check for that. 
 In cairo, we recommend enabling it (by way of chmod +x 
.git/hooks/pre-commit), but with gtk-docs, it's necessary to turn that off at 
times.  Something to keep in mind.

I personally always do a "git diff" before commit, and look for red-background 
blocks that represent trailing whitespace and fix them myself.

behdad

> Lennart