Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The trailing whitespace is unusual within the Git sphere, as well as > unsightly if you happen to have your editor configured to highlight > trailing whitespace, and just "feels" sloppy. But we are discussing this in the context of format-patch output, where patches that change lines near a blank line will have a line with a single SP on it in common context ;-) I do not feel very strongly either way, though. > [1]: I suppose mechanical extraction of notes may be one such > scenario, allowing for simple-minded (not necessarily robust) > extraction mechanics; i.e. start extracting after the /^Notes:$/ line > and stop at the first line not indented with four blanks. Yup, that was what I had in mind.