Re: Checking in files with trailing white space

[Paul Eggert]

On 12/12/2016 02:16 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> However, this absolute prohibition on trailing spaces is fascistic.
> Some files (for example, test files) have essential trailing spaces in
> them

I added a comment to the pre-commit file to help out others in your 
situation; see the attached patch.

As it is all too easy to overlook trailing white space when reading 
source code, I'd rather avoid having significant whitespace in committed 
files. If I were writing those test cases, I'd commit files that didn't 
have trailing whitespace, and convert them to 
files-with-trailing-whitespace while running the test.

Similarly, I'd rather avoid committing binary data. It's easier to read 
and review text files, given the tools we have. Any tests that require 
binary data can generate the data when the test is run.

0001-build-aux-git-hooks-pre-commit-Add-whitespace-commen.patch
Description: Source code patch