Do not strip empty lines / trailing spaces from a commit message template

Templates should be just that: A form that the user fills out, and forms
have blanks. If people are attached to not having extra whitespace in the
editor, they can simply clean up their templates.

Added test with editor adding even more whitespace.
Signed-off-by: NBoris Faure <billiob@gmail.com>
Based-on-patch-by: NSebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

builtin/commit.c

@@ -615,6 +615,7 @@ static int prepare_to_commit(const char *index_file, const char *prefix,
 	const char *hook_arg1 = NULL;
 	const char *hook_arg2 = NULL;
 	int ident_shown = 0;
+	int clean_message_contents = (cleanup_mode != CLEANUP_NONE);
 
 	if (!no_verify && run_hook(index_file, "pre-commit", NULL))
 		return 0;
@@ -681,6 +682,7 @@ static int prepare_to_commit(const char *index_file, const char *prefix,
 		if (strbuf_read_file(&sb, template_file, 0) < 0)
 			die_errno(_("could not read '%s'"), template_file);
 		hook_arg1 = "template";
+		clean_message_contents = 0;
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -708,7 +710,7 @@ static int prepare_to_commit(const char *index_file, const char *prefix,
 	if (s->fp == NULL)
 		die_errno(_("could not open '%s'"), git_path(commit_editmsg));
 
-	if (cleanup_mode != CLEANUP_NONE)
+	if (clean_message_contents)
 		stripspace(&sb, 0);
 
 	if (signoff) {

t/t7500-commit.sh

@@ -123,6 +123,20 @@ test_expect_success 'commit message from file should override template' '
 	commit_msg_is "standard input msg"
 '
 
+cat >"$TEMPLATE" <<\EOF
+
+
+### template
+
+EOF
+test_expect_success 'commit message from template with whitespace issue' '
+	echo "content galore" >>foo &&
+	git add foo &&
+	GIT_EDITOR="$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t7500/add-whitespaced-content git commit \
+		--template "$TEMPLATE" &&
+	commit_msg_is "commit message"
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'using alternate GIT_INDEX_FILE (1)' '
 
 	cp .git/index saved-index &&

t/t7500/add-whitespaced-content

+#!/bin/sh
+sed -e 's/|$//' >>"$1" <<\EOF
+
+ |
+commit message  	 |
+
+EOF
+exit 0