From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 02:27:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 v2] cvsexportcommit: chomp only removes trailing whitespace
Message-ID: <7vk5hwi9o4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805142327520.30431@racer>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> @@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ if (@canstatusfiles) {
>  	my $basename = basename($name);
>  
>  	$basename = "no file " . $basename if (exists($added{$basename}));
> -	chomp($basename);
> +	$basename =~ s/^\s+(.*?)\s*$/$1/;

Isn't this no-op for a basename that does not begin with a whitespace?
Don't you want to still strip trailing whitespaces in such a case?