Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Remove trailing whitespaces from documentation

On 12/14/16 5:12 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> For my 2c, at least, because we're going to be constantly fighting with
> the trailing whitespace in those examples.  If you forget to s/</</g,
> the docs aren't going to build and it's going to be extremely obvious
> that you need to do something.  Not that I'm actually happy about that-
> I'd much rather tell the doc engine "copy this verbatim until you see a
> </closeverbatim> tag" or whatever, and not have to go hack up psql
> output at all,

This already exists: git grep -w CDATA

> That said, if we can make git complain about trailing whitespace in the
> docs but not mind it in the regression test output, then at least most
> will hopefully realize that they need to go through and strip out the
> trailing whitespace before committing.

That would be easy to do.

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