Ignore trailing whitespace in .gitignore files (as git itself does)

2 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/ignore.c b/src/ignore.c
index f089dbeb5..615cd94bf 100644
--- a/src/ignore.c
+++ b/src/ignore.c
@@ -213,6 +213,16 @@ static int parse_ignore_file(
 			if (ignore_case)
 				match->flags |= GIT_ATTR_FNMATCH_ICASE;
 
+			while (match->length > 0) {
+				if (match->pattern[match->length - 1] == ' ' ||
+				    match->pattern[match->length - 1] == '\t') {
+					match->pattern[match->length - 1] = 0;
+					match->length --;
+				} else {
+					break;
+				}
+			}
+
 			scan = git__next_line(scan);
 
 			/*
diff --git a/tests/attr/ignore.c b/tests/attr/ignore.c
index 856e61f90..d241c03b5 100644
--- a/tests/attr/ignore.c
+++ b/tests/attr/ignore.c
@@ -51,6 +51,16 @@ void test_attr_ignore__allow_root(void)
 	assert_is_ignored(false, "NewFolder/NewFolder/File.txt");
 }
 
+void test_attr_ignore__ignore_space(void)
+{
+	cl_git_rewritefile("attr/.gitignore", "/\n\n/NewFolder \n/NewFolder/NewFolder");
+
+	assert_is_ignored(false, "File.txt");
+	assert_is_ignored(true, "NewFolder");
+	assert_is_ignored(true, "NewFolder/NewFolder");
+	assert_is_ignored(true, "NewFolder/NewFolder/File.txt");
+}
+
 void test_attr_ignore__ignore_root(void)
 {
 	cl_git_rewritefile("attr/.gitignore", "/\n\n/NewFolder\n/NewFolder/NewFolder");