Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > tell the higher echelon folks > to do: > > $ git repo-config apply.whitespace error > > in their repositories That might be reasonable, some might object to tiny amounts of extra work.. In my setup, trailing whitespace purely causes warnings. But with a quilt-style thing, it's trivial to unapply the patch, strip it, reapply. git is different - I'd imagine that if warnings were generated while an mbox was being applied, it's too much hassle to go and unapply the mbox, fix the diffs up and then apply the mbox again. I'd suggest that git have options to a) generate trailing-whitespace warnings, b) generate trailing-whitespace errors and c) strip trailing whitespace while applying. And that the as-shipped default be a). - : 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