That's an interesting way of dealing with it - I have my text editor strip trailing whitespace and ensure there's a newline at the end of the file on every save

That's an interesting way of dealing with it - I have my text editor strip trailing whitespace and ensure there's a newline at the end of the file on every save, so it wouldn't work for me. That's okay though. I visually review the diff before I commit (almost) every time.