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On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 06:48, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29 May 2010 01:28, karl williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> wrote:
>> demerphq wrote:
>> And while we're on the subject. Apparently another unwritten rule is about
>> trailing white space. It would be best if that were written down, and there
>> was some sort of checker for that,
>
> Actually there are.
>
> First do this:
>
> git config --global color.ui auto
>
> That should turn on colored output for git. Once the colored diff is
> enabled you will easily spot trailing whitespace because it will be
> highlighted in red when you do git diff.
>
> Additionally git supports hooks for various actions and events, and I
> think one of the hooks (default disabled but distributed with git
> iirc) does whitespace cleanup on commit.
Actually git diff --check is the recommended Git way of doing this:
$ git diff --check blead.. > /dev/null \
|| echo It fixes the whitespace or it gets the hose again
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