From 483435ae3db9ab5fa3fa8876e941770fa0f878f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Max Jakobitsch <minigugler@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 09:00:51 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] docs: add git config items to docs

---
 doc/buildAndProgram.md | 7 ++++++-
 doc/buildWithDocker.md | 6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/buildAndProgram.md b/doc/buildAndProgram.md
index b588b649..8aa32daf 100644
--- a/doc/buildAndProgram.md
+++ b/doc/buildAndProgram.md
@@ -24,10 +24,15 @@ To build this project, you'll need:
 
 ### Clone the repo
 
-```
+```sh
 git clone https://github.com/InfiniTimeOrg/InfiniTime.git
 cd InfiniTime
 git submodule update --init
+
+# configure git to apply whitespace fixes automatically
+git config set core.whitespace trailing-space,space-before-tab
+git config set apply.whitespace fix
+
 mkdir build
 cd build
 ```
diff --git a/doc/buildWithDocker.md b/doc/buildWithDocker.md
index 670590a6..9ad65fec 100644
--- a/doc/buildWithDocker.md
+++ b/doc/buildWithDocker.md
@@ -15,10 +15,14 @@ Based on Ubuntu 22.04 with the following build dependencies:
 
 Before building, local repository must be fully initialized.
 
-```
+```sh
 git clone https://github.com/InfiniTimeOrg/InfiniTime.git
 cd InfiniTime
 git submodule update --init
+
+# configure git to apply whitespace fixes automatically
+git config set core.whitespace trailing-space,space-before-tab
+git config set apply.whitespace fix
 ```
 
 ## Run a container to build the project