Re: Git trailing blank lines feature configuration

Johannes Sixt <[email protected]> Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:08:49 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.git
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am 31.07.26 um 12:19 schrieb Thomas Nemeth:
>     I have the habit to keep 1 blank line at the end of my files. To me,
>     it eases the EOF modifications (selecting code blocks, pasting them)
>     in vim.

(Call this is [x].)

>     Would it be possible to have a configuration option to avoid warnings
>     (because I see that as a warning) about trailing blank lines ?
Hearing the first time that an extra blank line at EOF is necessary or
useful. Would the correct question then perhaps be: how do you all
handle [x] without an extra blank line at EOF?

That said, are you looking to disable blank-at-eof from core.whitespace?
Collect all "enabled by default" except this one from [*].

[*]
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config.txt-corewhitespace

-- Hannes