"D. Ben Knoble" <ben.knoble@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Really? When committing a recent patch (editor template attached) with > -v (for testing this), I saw trailing whitespace on the blank line > under the added feed. True. Unless you use a special configuration, which might break other people's "patch" implementations (I think "git apply" has learned to grok this ages ago). $ git -c diff.suppressBlankEmpty=yes commit -v