Eric Sunshine [off-list ref] writes:
The trailing whitespace is unusual within the Git sphere, as well as
unsightly if you happen to have your editor configured to highlight
trailing whitespace, and just "feels" sloppy.
But we are discussing this in the context of format-patch output,
where patches that change lines near a blank line will have a line
with a single SP on it in common context ;-)
I do not feel very strongly either way, though.
[1]: I suppose mechanical extraction of notes may be one such
scenario, allowing for simple-minded (not necessarily robust)
extraction mechanics; i.e. start extracting after the /^Notes:$/ line
and stop at the first line not indented with four blanks.
Yup, that was what I had in mind.