Eric Sunshine [off-list ref] writes:
I'm not a fan of the trailing whitespace either, however, Junio does
have the concern that there may be some tooling somewhere which relies
upon the "indented blank lines" (even if such tooling would not be
robust).
Note that such a "concern" is always relative. If the upside were
so great, perhaps risking possible breakage may be warranted. FWIW,
I am not a big fan of trailing whitespaces that human writers leave
in what they write, either.
Because the patch text will be full of lines with trailing
whitespaces anyway due to a blank lines in the patch context,
however, it does not sound so great an upside to tweak how the
paragraphs taken from the notes are inserted.
Thanks.