Re: Add trim_trailing_whitespace to editorconfig file

On Thu, 4 Apr 2024 at 17:23, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
>      git diff-tree --check $(git hash-object -t tree /dev/null) HEAD
>
> That's what I was hoping for for editorconfig-check, but as I said, the
> experience wasn't good.

Ah, I wasn't able to find that git incantation. I definitely think it
would be good if there was an official cli tool like that for
editorconfig, but the Javascript one was the closest I could find. The
Go one I haven't tried.

On Thu, 4 Apr 2024 at 17:23, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
>
> On 04.04.24 16:58, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote:
> > On Thu, 4 Apr 2024 at 15:25, Peter Eisentraut<peter@eisentraut.org>  wrote:
> >> Everybody has git.  Everybody who edits .gitattributes can use git to
> >> check what they did.
> > What CLI command do you use to fix/ gitattributes on all existing
> > files? Afaict there's no command to actually remove the trailing
> > whitespace that git add complains about. If you don't have such a
> > command, then afaict updating gitattributes is also essentially
> > blind-updating.
>
> I don't have a command to fix files automatically, but I have a command
> to check them:
>
>      git diff-tree --check $(git hash-object -t tree /dev/null) HEAD
>
> That's what I was hoping for for editorconfig-check, but as I said, the
> experience wasn't good.
>