[PATCH for comments] configure: install a whitespace checking pre-commit hook for developers

[Douglas Bagnall]

Martin wrote:

> The problem is that the *initial* proposal is not for a checkpatch
> script that people can run *before* submitting their patch.  The
> proposal is for something that runs at the submission gate.

This patch shows a third way, still quite authoritarian but sort of
opt-out-able and entirely local. It makes it harder to *create*
patches that break the rules, not to submit them.

It will also (I think) make it harder to `git am` a patch series that
contains whitespace errors, and will possibly annoy people who make a
lot of private WIP patches.

Douglas
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