Trailing Whitespace

[Samuel Bronson]

Dmitry Samersoff <dms <at> samersoff.net> writes:

> IMHO, better approach is to install on-commit hook blocking commits
> with trailing whitespace (and tab characters) and leave old code as is.

Unfortunately, commit hooks have to be set up in every local copy of the
repository, which I can't see happening.

On the other hand, there *is* a sample "pre-commit" hook to catch trailing
whitespace installed by default in every new git repository, so it would be
as simple as running "mv .git/hooks/pre-commit{.sample,}".