https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39185

Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> ---
I'll note that the trailing whitespace thing isn't specific to Gerrit but to
git in general: the default colors for git diff also highlight trailing
whitespace in red.

I believe one of the reasons why git is so afraid of trailing whitespace is
because it can get corrupted when sending commits via e-mail (and then only if
put directly in the body rather than in an attachment, and maybe even then only
in some cases), but that's a Linux kernel-specific and IMO archaic workflow
that we don't use.

(E-mail clients eating trailing whitespace isn't that worrying by itself, but
disappearing characters cause failing SHA-1 hash checks, and obviously git
freaks out in that case.)

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