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Friday September 21, 2007
12:18 AM

odd gitism

[ #34504 ]

I'm a relatively new git user and it is constantly surprising me (usually in a good way), but tonight it just did something I thought quite odd: it complained about trailing whitespace when I tried to commit. Why does git even care about trailing whitespace on any of my lines? Isn't that just text like anything else?


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  • Apparently, you've enabled the "commit hook" that does extra checking. If you don't want that checking, don't enable it. Did you install this from the sources, or from some RPM, because some RPMs (wrongly, imho) enable that hook?
    --
    • Randal L. Schwartz
    • Stonehenge
  • The warning is mostly to avoid cluttering the revision history with the revision where you kill the trailing whitespace. That makes "git blame" and similar analyses hard.
    • Unfortunately, it also means that necessary whitespace-only POD lines are going to generate warnings.
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