trailing-spaces.md

Pattern: Trailing whitespace

Issue: -

Description

Adding trailing whitespace can cause extra work for others editing the same file, when they merge, as can removing existing trailing whitespace. So: Don't introduce trailing whitespace. Remove it if you're already changing that line, or do it in a separate clean-up operation (preferably when no-one else is working on the file).

Examples

1. With trailing-spaces: {}

   the following code snippet would PASS:

   this document doesn't contain
   any trailing
   spaces
   

   the following code snippet would FAIL:

   this document contains     
   trailing spaces
   on lines 1 and 3 
   

Further Reading

• Yamllint - trailing_spaces