Fix "diff --check" whitespace detection

"diff --check" would only detect spaces before tabs if a tab was the
last character in the leading indent. Fix that and add a test case to
make sure the bug doesn't regress in the future.

Signed-off-by: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index d97ebc501..9c79ee289 100644
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -1044,11 +1044,18 @@ static void checkdiff_consume(void *priv, char *line, unsigned long len)
 		int i, spaces = 0, space_before_tab = 0, white_space_at_end = 0;
 
 		/* check space before tab */
-		for (i = 1; i < len && (line[i] == ' ' || line[i] == '\t'); i++)
+		for (i = 1; i < len; i++) {
 			if (line[i] == ' ')
 				spaces++;
-		if (line[i - 1] == '\t' && spaces)
-			space_before_tab = 1;
+			else if (line[i] == '\t') {
+				if (spaces) {
+					space_before_tab = 1;
+					break;
+				}
+			}
+			else
+				break;
+		}
 
 		/* check whitespace at line end */
 		if (line[len - 1] == '\n')