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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2016-12-12 14:54:30 -0800 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2016-12-12 14:55:59 -0800 |
| commit | 3e651e3c6b241eaeab70e63c267366e9678b6b52 (patch) | |
| tree | e5662f7755e9d7f3cd58aa794f0c402bb056e1fe /build-aux/git-hooks | |
| parent | 27cada035a79b633e856a437dd0e037acc1d61c6 (diff) | |
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* build-aux/git-hooks/pre-commit: Add whitespace comment.
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diff --git a/build-aux/git-hooks/pre-commit b/build-aux/git-hooks/pre-commit index 5a512442b18..3709784fd13 100755 --- a/build-aux/git-hooks/pre-commit +++ b/build-aux/git-hooks/pre-commit @@ -45,4 +45,12 @@ for new_name in `$git_diff HEAD`; do esac done +# The '--check' option of git diff-index makes Git complain if changes +# introduce whitespace errors. This can be a pain when editing test +# files that deliberately contain lines with trailing whitespace. +# To work around the problem you can run a command like 'git config +# core.whitespace -trailing-space'. It may be better to revamp the +# tests so that trailing spaces are generated on the fly rather than +# being committed as source. + exec git diff-index --check --cached HEAD -- |