to ask if what you are about to commit is a good patch.
[jc: this also would work for fmt-patch, but the point is that
the check is done before making a commit. format-patch is run
from an already created commit, and that is too late to catch
whitespace damaged change.]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>