Re: [PATCH] Add gitattributes file making whitespace checking pickier

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I think it's worthwhile to note that some of the files under t/ have 
> whitespace that doesn't conform to the rest of the project.

Yes.  I tried to be careful with the set of attribute files I
sent out not to corrupt them.  Was I unsuccessful?

> On the other hand, I think this patch is an odd combination of stuff; 
> aren't the contrib exceptions not exceptional, since only *.[ch] and *.txt 
> gets declared as "whitespace"?

True, how about this instead?

---
 .gitattributes               |    2 ++
 Documentation/.gitattributes |    1 +
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6b9c715
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+* whitespace=!indent,trail,space
+*.[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