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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> there is a good reason not to enable the no-whitespace-at-eol checking in 
> pre-commit by default (at least for *all* files) for git development:
> 
> 	Python.

That's not a good reason.  People will discover that git has started
shouting at them and they'll work out how to make it stop.

The probem is getting C users to turn the check on, not in getting python
users to turn it off.