Re: [PATCH] * HACKING: avoid trailing white space

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Jim,

Jim Meyering writes:
> 
> This is obviously incomplete (the FIXME, and no configuration
> recommendations for Emacs' Whitespace), but we have to start somewhere.
> As usual, suggestions welcome.

Either of these:
  chmod +x .git/hooks/pre-commit
  git config apply.whitespace error-all

The latter requires pretty recent git, and there are several settings that
may be useful.  See the manpage for git-apply for details.

Cheers,
Ralf