ci: github action - add check for whitespace errors

Not all developers are aware of `git diff --check` to warn
about whitespace issues.  Running a check when a pull request is
opened or updated can save time for reviewers and the submitter.

A GitHub workflow will run when a pull request is created or the
contents are updated to check the patch series.  A pull request
provides the necessary information (number of commits) to only
check the patch series.

To ensure the developer is aware of any issues, a comment will be
added to the pull request with the check errors.

Signed-off-by: Chris. Webster <chris@webstech.net>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 69 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/.github/workflows/check-whitespace.yml b/.github/workflows/check-whitespace.yml
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+name: check-whitespace
+
+# Get the repo with the commits(+1) in the series.
+# Process `git log --check` output to extract just the check errors.
+# Add a comment to the pull request with the check errors.
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    types: [opened, synchronize]
+
+jobs:
+  check-whitespace:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+    - name: Set commit count
+      shell: bash
+      run: echo "::set-env name=COMMIT_DEPTH::$((1+$COMMITS))"
+      env:
+        COMMITS: ${{ github.event.pull_request.commits }}
+
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      with:
+        fetch-depth: ${{ env.COMMIT_DEPTH }}
+
+    - name: git log --check
+      id: check_out
+      run: |
+        log=
+        commit=
+        while read dash etc
+        do
+          case "${dash}" in
+          "---")
+            commit="${etc}"
+            ;;
+          "")
+            ;;
+          *)
+            if test -n "${commit}"
+            then
+              log="${log}\n${commit}"
+              echo ""
+              echo "--- ${commit}"
+            fi
+            commit=
+            log="${log}\n${dash} ${etc}"
+            echo "${dash} ${etc}"
+            ;;
+          esac
+        done <<< $(git log --check --pretty=format:"---% h% s" -${{github.event.pull_request.commits}})
+
+        if test -n "${log}"
+        then
+          echo "::set-output name=checkout::"${log}""
+          exit 2
+        fi
+
+    - name: Add Check Output as Comment
+      uses: actions/github-script@v3
+      id: add-comment
+      with:
+        script: |
+            github.issues.createComment({
+              issue_number: context.issue.number,
+              owner: context.repo.owner,
+              repo: context.repo.repo,
+              body: "Whitespace errors found in workflow ${{ github.workflow }}:\n\n${{ steps.check_out.outputs.checkout }}"
+            })
+      if: ${{ failure() }}