Re: [Ksummit-discuss] checkkpatch (in)sanity ?

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2016-08-29 at 10:16 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 05:47:59AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > 
> > I generally don't run it on my own patches, mostly out
> > of possibly misplaced confidence in my own adherence to
> > the nominal kernel style.  It sometimes leads to mild
> > regret over things like whitespace defects.
> In the specific case of whitespace defects, does git diff not catch
> those?
> 
> For that matter, should we add a .gitattributes file to the kernel
> enabling additional whitespace errors git knows how to catch?  git.git
> has such a file.

For reference:
    https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Configuration
and here's the git.git .gitattributes file:
    $ cat .gitattributes 
    * whitespace=!indent,trail,space
    *.[ch] whitespace=indent,trail,space diff=cpp
    *.sh whitespace=indent,trail,space

Using something like that for kernel git would be a
good idea for trailing whitespace and space before HT.

But aren't those the generic git default options now?