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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 18, 2007, 10:18 UTC
Message-ID: <7v4peg1f33.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <5d2716640712180147x36aa3178ja8658e30842c4e52@mail.gmail.com>

"Hannes Eder" <hannes.eder@gmail.com> writes:

> It's not uncommon to have a lines 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.

Hmm. The current trend is to get rid of the whitespace checks from this hook and enrich git-diff --check and git-apply --whitespace=error.

I've been planning to add a new whitespace error rule that allows ^M at the end of line, post 1.5.4. Another rule that allows a lone ^L would match what you are doing here, and it would be a good addition as well.