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-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitignore.txt3
-rw-r--r--dir.c21
-rwxr-xr-xt/t0008-ignores.sh8
3 files changed, 19 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index f971960512..aa776234e1 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ PATTERN FORMAT
Put a backslash ("`\`") in front of the first hash for patterns
that begin with a hash.
+ - Trailing spaces are ignored unless they are quoted with backlash
+ ("`\`").
+
- An optional prefix "`!`" which negates the pattern; any
matching file excluded by a previous pattern will become
included again. If a negated pattern matches, this will
diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
index 065491bb4b..f6743b36cd 100644
--- a/dir.c
+++ b/dir.c
@@ -463,20 +463,23 @@ void clear_exclude_list(struct exclude_list *el)
el->filebuf = NULL;
}
-static void check_trailing_spaces(const char *fname, char *buf)
+static void trim_trailing_spaces(char *buf)
{
- int i, last_space = -1, len = strlen(buf);
+ int i, last_space = -1, nr_spaces, len = strlen(buf);
for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
if (buf[i] == '\\')
i++;
- else if (buf[i] == ' ')
- last_space = i;
- else
+ else if (buf[i] == ' ') {
+ if (last_space == -1) {
+ last_space = i;
+ nr_spaces = 1;
+ } else
+ nr_spaces++;
+ } else
last_space = -1;
- if (last_space == len - 1)
- warning(_("%s: trailing spaces in '%s'. Please quote or remove them."),
- fname, buf);
+ if (last_space != -1 && last_space + nr_spaces == len)
+ buf[last_space] = '\0';
}
int add_excludes_from_file_to_list(const char *fname,
@@ -530,7 +533,7 @@ int add_excludes_from_file_to_list(const char *fname,
if (buf[i] == '\n') {
if (entry != buf + i && entry[0] != '#') {
buf[i - (i && buf[i-1] == '\r')] = 0;
- check_trailing_spaces(fname, entry);
+ trim_trailing_spaces(entry);
add_exclude(entry, base, baselen, el, lineno);
}
lineno++;
diff --git a/t/t0008-ignores.sh b/t/t0008-ignores.sh
index 9e1d64c6ac..bbaf6b5e9e 100755
--- a/t/t0008-ignores.sh
+++ b/t/t0008-ignores.sh
@@ -779,18 +779,18 @@ test_expect_success PIPE 'streaming support for --stdin' '
#
# test whitespace handling
-test_expect_success 'trailing whitespace is warned' '
+test_expect_success 'trailing whitespace is ignored' '
mkdir whitespace &&
>whitespace/trailing &&
>whitespace/untracked &&
echo "whitespace/trailing " >ignore &&
cat >expect <<EOF &&
-whitespace/trailing
whitespace/untracked
EOF
+ : >err.expect &&
git ls-files -o -X ignore whitespace >actual 2>err &&
- grep "ignore:.*'\''whitespace/trailing '\''" err &&
- test_cmp expect actual
+ test_cmp expect actual &&
+ test_cmp err.expect err
'
test_expect_success 'quoting allows trailing whitespace' '