From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [rfd] a new core.whitespace class "\No newline at end of file"
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2025 10:39:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqjz15fg3i.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
It would be a good sized internship project to introduce a new
core.whitespace class that is about a file that ends in an
incomplete line (it would be way too big as a microproject, so I would
not add the #leftoverbits tag to this one).
The student needs to learn quite a lot of things, including
- they need to study the diff machinery to learn how existing
whitespace breakages are reported, in order to figure out how to
add a new class of whitespace breakage;
- they need to find a good name for this new class;
- they need to study the apply machinery to learn how existing
whitespace breakages are reported or corrected, in order to
figure out how to add support for this new class.
Thoughts?
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2025-10-08 17:39 Junio C Hamano [this message]
2025-10-08 19:29 ` [rfd] a new core.whitespace class "\No newline at end of file" brian m. carlson
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