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[PATCH] allow a single form feed in pre commit hook

From
HEHannes Eder <hannes.eder@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 18, 2007, 10:09 UTC
Message-ID
<5d2716640712180209k7e2fc9fdw74508178cb9fa54f@mail.gmail.com>

It's not uncommon to have a line with a single form feed in it, e.g. the default GPL COPYING and also in .c files and others. Attached patch allows this in the pre-commit hook.

-Hannes
diff --git a/templates/hooks--pre-commit b/templates/hooks--pre-commit
index 7092bae..a759f92 100644
--- a/templates/hooks--pre-commit
+++ b/templates/hooks--pre-commit
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ perl -e '
 	if (s/^\+//) {
 	    $lineno++;
 	    chomp;
-	    if (/\s$/) {
+	    if (!/^\f$/ && /\s$/) {
 		bad_line("trailing whitespace", $_);
 	    }
 	    if (/^\s* \t/) {
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  1. allow a single form feed in pre commit hookHannes Eder, Dec 18, 2007

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