Re: [PATCH 0/2] Ignore trailing spaces in .gitignore

2014-02-09 Thread Junio C Hamano
Junio C Hamano writes: > Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy writes: > >> Trailing spaces are invisible in most standard editors (*). "git diff" >> does show trailing spaces by default. But that does not help newly >> written .gitignore files. And trailing spaces are the source of >> frustration when writing

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Ignore trailing spaces in .gitignore

2014-02-09 Thread Duy Nguyen
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy writes: > >> Trailing spaces are invisible in most standard editors (*). "git diff" >> does show trailing spaces by default. But that does not help newly >> written .gitignore files. And trailing spaces are the source

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Ignore trailing spaces in .gitignore

2014-02-09 Thread Junio C Hamano
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy writes: > Trailing spaces are invisible in most standard editors (*). "git diff" > does show trailing spaces by default. But that does not help newly > written .gitignore files. And trailing spaces are the source of > frustration when writing .gitignore. > > So let's ignore

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Ignore trailing spaces in .gitignore

2014-02-09 Thread Jeff King
On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 06:48:18AM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote: > > I guess by quoting you meant: > > > > echo '"trailing "' >.gitignore > > This makes " special. If we follow shell convention then things > between ".." should be literal (e.g. "*" is no longer a wildcard). We > don't support it ye

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Ignore trailing spaces in .gitignore

2014-02-08 Thread Duy Nguyen
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 11:45 PM, Jeff King wrote: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 03:10:02PM +0700, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote: > >> Trailing spaces are invisible in most standard editors (*). "git diff" >> does show trailing spaces by default. But that does not help newly >> written .gitignore files. A

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Ignore trailing spaces in .gitignore

2014-02-08 Thread Jeff King
On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 03:10:02PM +0700, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote: > Trailing spaces are invisible in most standard editors (*). "git diff" > does show trailing spaces by default. But that does not help newly > written .gitignore files. And trailing spaces are the source of > frustration when w

[PATCH 0/2] Ignore trailing spaces in .gitignore

2014-02-08 Thread Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Trailing spaces are invisible in most standard editors (*). "git diff" does show trailing spaces by default. But that does not help newly written .gitignore files. And trailing spaces are the source of frustration when writing .gitignore. So let's ignore them. Nobody sane would put a trailing spac