Re: Checking in files with trailing white space

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> I'm adding test cases for the shr HTML rendering, and in some of the
> tests there should really be trailing white space in the result files.
> Is there a way to say that the test/data/shr directory should be allowed
> to have trailing spaces in our git/checkin thing?

How 'bout you don't store files with trailing whitespace, but instead
store files which contain code which creates those trailing whitespaces.
E.g.

  (ert-deftest ...
    (with-temp-buffer
      (insert "foo   ")
      <dosomething>))


-- Stefan