Paul Menzel (paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net) just uploaded a new patch set to gerrit, which you can find at http://review.coreboot.org/3952 -gerrit commit 021b75ca2226b18fdb4a8206801e235dbbffe9b5 Author: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Wed Oct 2 22:10:11 2013 +0200 util/lint/lint-stable-003-whitespace: Ignore temporary files ending with a tilde Some editors like gedit create auxiliary files ending with a tilde »~«. As these are not checked into the Git repository, do not check these fore whitespace errors. Change-Id: I2c4cf00f9d623be73ea3bbb7b2da4f1e1900c8e9 Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net> --- util/lint/lint-stable-003-whitespace | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/util/lint/lint-stable-003-whitespace b/util/lint/lint-stable-003-whitespace index fceacf7..1e824a1 100755 --- a/util/lint/lint-stable-003-whitespace +++ b/util/lint/lint-stable-003-whitespace @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ find src util -name .svn -type d -prune -o \ -name microcode-\*.h -prune -o \ -name \*.?_shipped -prune -o \ -name \*.[18] -prune -o \ + -name \*~ -prune -o \ -name kconfig -type d -prune -o \ -name romcc -type d -prune -o \ -name crossgcc -type d -prune -o \