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Diffstat (limited to 'build-aux/git-hooks/pre-commit')
| -rwxr-xr-x | build-aux/git-hooks/pre-commit | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
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 -- |