Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On tis, 2010-09-28 at 12:18 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> It would be good to get rid of this whitespace because (I believe) it is
>> one of very few reasons for needing to have any trailing whitespace in
>> git-controlled files. If we could get to a point where trailing
>> whitespace in patches could be rejected automatically, it'd eliminate
>> one small pet peeve.
> You won't be able to programmatically forbid all trailing whitespace (at
> least without additional arrangements) because of:
Yeah, if we can't get all the way there easily, the above argument isn't
worth much.
regards, tom lane