It's not uncommon to have a lines with a single form feed in it, e.g. the default GPL COPYING and also in .c files and others. Attached patch allows this in the pre-commit hook. -Hannes
From 454ede83f7a45741d825f0b6cbdb0be2ac235fdb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hannes Eder <Hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:21:11 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] allow a lines with just one form feed in pre-commit hook diff --git a/templates/hooks--pre-commit b/templates/hooks--pre-commit index 7092bae..a759f92 100644 --- a/templates/hooks--pre-commit +++ b/templates/hooks--pre-commit @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ perl -e ' if (s/^\+//) { $lineno++; chomp; - if (/\s$/) { + if (!/^\f$/ && /\s$/) { bad_line("trailing whitespace", $_); } if (/^\s* \t/) {