Re: [PATCH] notes: remove trailing whitespace from editor template

> On Tue, May 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > In this case I am not all that sympathetic to the idea of the patch.
> > The consistently indented lines makes it more clear from which line
> > to which line came from a commit log message; running stripspace
> > would break them into paragraph pieces.  These editors that complain
> > probaly can be fixed?
>
> My editor doesn't complain, but it does highlight trailing whitespace
> at my behest, and it tends to be an eyesore (on purpose: that way I
> clean it up). Perhaps Kistoffer is coming from a similar place?
>
> > Alternatively, if it bothers users of certain editing environments
> > too much, perhaps the indent code in the output phase of "git show"
> > should lose the indents for empty lines uniformly, shoudln't it?  It
> > probably should be a fairly isolated change, like the way how the
> > expand_tabs_in_log bit is handled in pretty.c; give another bit and
> > teach pp_handle_indent to return when that bit is set and the
> > payload it was asked to show with indentation is empty, or something
> > like that.
>
> I think this suggestion would also help folks who "git commit -v,"
> which IIRC is also indented in the template.