Re: the war on trailing whitespace

From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Date: Feb 26, 2006, 19:45 UTC
Message-ID: <20060226194529.GA21009@mars.ravnborg.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602260925170.22647@g5.osdl.org>

On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 09:29:00AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Sat, 25 Feb 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
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> > I'd suggest a) git will simply refuse to apply such a patch unless given a
> > special `forcing' flag, b) even when thus forced, it will still warn and c)
> > with a different flag, it will strip-then-apply, without generating a
> > warning.
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> This doesn't do the "strip-then-apply" thing, but it allows you to make 
> git-apply generate a warning or error on extraneous whitespace.

Can this somehow be done in a way so everyone that clones your tree will inherit the warn/error on whitespace setting? In this way we make sure it gets enabled automagically in many trees and I do not have to remember yet another options.

Alternatively something that is enabled for a tree so I only have to do something once - a trigger maybe?

Sam