From: Neal Kreitzinger Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2011 00:23:44 GMT Subject: Re: pre-commit hook to reject whitespace Message-ID: <4DE97B10.8080006@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On 6/3/2011 7:12 PM, John Szakmeister wrote: > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Neal Kreitzinger wrote: >> On 6/3/2011 6:31 PM, Neal Kreitzinger wrote: >>> >>> The reference manuals state in the hooks documentation that the pre-commit >>> hook sample will reject whitespace only changes. However, the >>> pre-commit.sample in the 1.7.1 and 1.7.5.4 downloads do not appear to do >>> this (I'm new to linux scripts). The appear to only reject non-ascii >>> filenames. Does someone have a pre-commit hook example I can use to >>> reject >>> whitespace-only changes? Thanks! >>> >> As someone kindly pointed out, the documentation actually says: >> "The default 'pre-commit' hook, when enabled, catches introduction of lines >> with trailing whitespaces and aborts the commit when such a line is found." >> >> I'm not seeing this functionality in the pre-commit.sample for 1.7.1 or >> 1.7.5.4. > > I've never tried that hook script myself, but it appears to be on the last line: > exec git diff-index --check --cached $against -- > > In particular, the --check option says: > Warn if changes introduce trailing whitespace or an indent that > uses a space before a tab. Exits with non-zero status if problems are > found. Not compatible with --exit-code. > Ah ha! Thanks! v/r, neal