Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> writes: > It's invariably pointless to add lines which have trailing whitespace. > Nobody cares much, but my scripts spam me when it happens, so I've become > obsessive.... I do not call me obsessive, but I do enable pre-commit and pre-applypatch hooks I ship with git myself. > I realise that we cannot do this when doing git fetches, but when importing > patches and mboxes, git ought to whine loudly about input which matches the > above regexp, and it should offer an option to tidy it up. Perhaps by > default. I stole the policy the sample hook scripts use from you; it is not enabled by default, and as the tool manufacturer I am a bit reluctant to do so. However, as a kernel project maintainer high in the foodchain, I'd imagine your plea to your fellow maintainers who apply patches using git tools would be heard well. - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html