Jeff Garzik wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>>
>>> Attached to this email is chomp.pl, a Perl script which removes 
>>> trailing whitespace from several files.  I've had this for years, as 
>>> trailing whitespace is one of my pet peeves.
>>>
>>> Now that git-applymbox complains loudly whenever a patch adds 
>>> trailing whitespace, I figured this script may be useful to others.
>>>
>>
>> This is the script I use for the same purpose.  It's a bit more 
>> sophisticated, in that it detects and avoids binary files, and doesn't 
>> throw an error if it encounters a directory (which can happen if you 
>> give it a wildcard.)
> 
> Chewing the EOF blanks is nice.  The only nit I have is that your script 
> rewrites the file even if nothing was changed.
> 

Ah, good point.  Attached version fixes that.  It still doesn't break 
hard links, which may be a desirable feature.

	-hpa