Re: [PATCH] Trim ending whitespaces in exclude file if needed.

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 18, 2010, 21:54 UTC
Message-ID: <7v39s3416u.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimrgGYXDtN_ukWuCpjGTibrMNLQvfpq8fe=VxS_@mail.gmail.com>

"Vasyl'" <vvavrychuk@gmail.com> writes:

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>> It sounds like there's a story behind this one.  Could you tell it?
>> That would help future readers of this code to easily determine
>> why they shouldn't break it.
>>
> I modify either .git/info/exclude or .gitignore by copy-pasting `git
> status`. But unfortunetly this adds spacing to ends of lines and ignoring
> does not work...

That makes it sound as if you would need a patch to fix your editor or whatever you are using for copy/paste, rather than git, no?

I do not personally have need to ignore paths whose names end with whitespaces, and I do not think anybody with such a need is sane, so in that sense your patch would be less harmful than the purist in me finds issues in it ;-)

But it changes the documented behaviour that requires documentation updates, yes?