[PATCH] binutils-gdb/git: Handle *.ac and *.m4 files in .gitattributes

Tom de Vries
2025-12-03T08:52:24Z

Since commit 52ca3d3fe61 ("toplevel: unify the GCC and GDB/binutils .editorconfig
files"), .editorconfig has settings for .ac and .m4 files:
...
[*.{ac,m4}]
indent_style = tab
indent_size = 2
trim_trailing_whitespace = true
...

There are no setting for those files in .gitattributes, so the whitespace
attribute defaults to trailing-space (shorthand for blank-at-eol,
blank-at-eof) and space-before-tab.

Since according to .editorconfig the indentation style is tab, add
indent-with-non-tab as well.

Since aclocal.m4 is generated, unset the whitespace attribute. Likewise for
configure.
---
.gitattributes | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 6f7c6d8ba52..3639ebcfe55 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -33,3 +33,13 @@ ChangeLog merge=merge-changelog
*.[cChH] whitespace=space-before-tab,indent-with-non-tab,trailing-space
*.exp whitespace=space-before-tab,indent-with-non-tab,trailing-space
*.tcl whitespace=space-before-tab,indent-with-non-tab,trailing-space
+
+# Autoconf.
+
+*.ac whitespace=space-before-tab,indent-with-non-tab,trailing-space
+*.m4 whitespace=space-before-tab,indent-with-non-tab,trailing-space
+
+# Generated files.
+
+configure -whitespace
+aclocal.m4 -whitespace

base-commit: d03293898d81e4273ac7f9163a8186dba46db0e5
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2.51.0