#!/bin/bash echo "Remove trailing spaces" if git-rev-parse --verify HEAD >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then against=HEAD else # Initial commit: diff against an empty tree object against=4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904 fi echo $against # Find files with trailing whitespace for FILE in `exec git diff-index --check $against -- | sed '/^[+-]/d' | (sed -r 's/:[0-9]+:.*//' > /dev/null 2>&1 || sed -E 's/:[0-9]+:.*//') | uniq` ; do # Fix them! echo $FILE (sed -i 's/[[:space:]]*$//' "$FILE" > /dev/null 2>&1 || sed -i '' -E 's/[[:space:]]*$//' "$FILE") git add "$FILE" done