Re: [RFC Outreachy] Teach ci/check-whitespace to flag incomplete lines as an error

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 13, 2025, 15:41 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqh5w23j3k.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <CAD=f0L-QAfMhBw1_RyLkpdntjPfu4M+temmawWGEZjAJn_iQdQ@mail.gmail.com>

Bello Olamide <belkid98@gmail.com> writes:

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>> we want.  We need a mechanism that notices and warns when a commit
>> makes a file, which used to end with a newline, end in an incomplete
>> line.
>
> Thank you for the clarity. This would mean to compare the relevant files in the
> current commit with its parent commit and report when the current commit removes
> the new line at the end of file which was present in the parent commit.
>
> But how about when a file is newly added and lacks the new line?

Yes, you should notice and flag any new incomplete line that did not exist before that are added by the commit.