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[PATCH] Add gitattributes file making whitespace checking pickier

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 10, 2008, 10:52 UTC
Message-ID
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I've tried "unexpand | expand" to Documentation/*.txt and compared the formatted documentation before and after the change, and as we suspected everything seems to match.

So I am considering applying this patch. We may want to tighten it later but as the initial set of rules this should do.

-- >8 -- [PATCH] Add gitattributes file making whitespace checking pickier

This establishes what the "bad" whitespaces are for this project.

The rules are:
 - For C source files, trailing whitespaces, an HT that follows
   a SP in the leading indent, and initial indent by SP that can
   be replaced with HT are all bad.
 - The same rule applies to the AsciiDoc input files in the
   Documentation/ hierarchy.
 - It is Ok to indent with all spaces the Python and Elisp
   sources in the contrib/ area.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 .gitattributes               |    1 +
 Documentation/.gitattributes |    1 +
 contrib/.gitattributes       |    3 +++
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9dd769a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+*.[ch] whitespace
diff --git a/Documentation/.gitattributes b/Documentation/.gitattributes
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ddb0301
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/.gitattributes
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+*.txt whitespace
diff --git a/contrib/.gitattributes b/contrib/.gitattributes
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2b48d05
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/.gitattributes
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+*.py whitespace=!indent,trail,space
+*.el whitespace=!indent,trail,space
+fast-import/git-p4 whitespace=!indent,trail,space
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