diff --check: do not discard error status upon seeing a good line

"git diff --check" should return non-zero when there was any whitespace
error but the code only paid attention to the error status of the last
new line in the patch.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index 5262490086..f281c5b82a 100644
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -1150,12 +1150,14 @@ static void checkdiff_consume(void *priv, char *line, unsigned long len)
 	char *err;
 
 	if (line[0] == '+') {
+		unsigned bad;
 		data->lineno++;
-		data->status = check_and_emit_line(line + 1, len - 1,
+		bad = check_and_emit_line(line + 1, len - 1,
 		    data->ws_rule, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
-		if (!data->status)
+		if (!bad)
 			return;
-		err = whitespace_error_string(data->status);
+		data->status |= bad;
+		err = whitespace_error_string(bad);
 		fprintf(data->file, "%s:%d: %s.\n", data->filename, data->lineno, err);
 		free(err);
 		emit_line(data->file, set, reset, line, 1);
diff --git a/t/t4017-diff-retval.sh b/t/t4017-diff-retval.sh
index dc0b7126cc..0d0fb87f57 100755
--- a/t/t4017-diff-retval.sh
+++ b/t/t4017-diff-retval.sh
@@ -105,4 +105,12 @@ test_expect_success '--check with --no-pager returns 2 for dirty difference' '
 
 '
 
+
+test_expect_success 'check should test not just the last line' '
+	echo "" >>a &&
+	git --no-pager diff --check
+	test $? = 2
+
+'
+
 test_done