[PATCH] binutils-gdb/git: highlight whitespace errors in source files

[Andrew Burgess]

Alan Modra via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 03:26:31PM +0100, Andrew Burgess via Binutils wrote:
>> For a long time I've had this in my ~/.gitconfig:
>> 
>>   [core]
>>           whitespace = space-before-tab,indent-with-non-tab,trailing-space
>> 
>> which causes git to show me if I muck up and use spaces instead of
>> tabs, or leave in trailing whitespace.  I find this really useful.
>
> Same here.
>
>> I recently proposed adding something like this to the .gitattributes
>> files for the GDB sub-directories (gdb, gdbsupport, and gdbserver)[1],
>> however, the question was asked - couldn't this be done at the top
>> level?
>
> I'm happy with your patch.

Thanks, I've gone ahead and pushed this.

Andrew