Same goes for --ignore-space-at-eol
The better solution would be to teach people to stop being careless about trailing whitespace in their commits.
The better solution would be to teach people to stop being careless about trailing whitespace in their commits.
We have these awesomely powerful systems, with this awesomely powerful software, that oftentimes I'm depressed by people doing things by hand. Heck, if I was really not willing to deal with whitespace retards, I'd just make a hook on the server auto indent and whitespace cleanup all changes before commit.
I'd love to be wrong on this!
As usual, it comes down to trust: if you can't trust your developers to write good code or not subvert the system, you either need to educate them, or work with better developers (fire them, or quit and work somewhere better). The point at which you have to start enforcing things by machine fiat can be helpful to catch honest mistakes, but it can also be a sign of a dysfunctional team.
All that it takes is that every single user behaves exactly correctly. That's an indication of a poor design. Tools should naturally guide people to the correct usage and be moderately forgiving of minor examples of incorrect usage.