Subject: Re: [RFC Outreachy] Teach ci/check-whitespace to flag incomplete lines as an error

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 08:41:03 -0700

Bello Olamide <[email-masked]> writes:

>> we want.  We need a mechanism that notices and warns when a commit
>> makes a file, which used to end with a newline, end in an incomplete
>> line.
>
> Thank you for the clarity. This would mean to compare the relevant files in the
> current commit with its parent commit and report when the current commit removes
> the new line at the end of file which was present in the parent commit.
>
> But how about when a file is newly added and lacks the new line?

Yes, you should notice and flag any new incomplete line that did not
exist before that are added by the commit.