--- /dev/null
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+use strict;
+use FindBin qw($Bin);
+our @files;
+
+BEGIN {
+ chdir "$Bin/.." or die;
+
+ my @exempted = qw(Makefile.am ChangeLog doc/Makefile.am);
+ push(@exempted, glob("doc/*.xml"));
+ push(@exempted, glob("doc/xml2rfc/*.xsl"));
+ push(@exempted, glob("m4/*backport*m4"));
+ my %exempted_hash = map { $_ => 1 } @exempted;
+
+ my @stuff = split /\0/, `git ls-files -z -c -m -o --exclude-standard`;
+ @files = grep { ! $exempted_hash{$_} } @stuff;
+
+ # We won't find any files if git isn't installed. If git isn't
+ # installed, they're probably not doing any useful development, or
+ # at the very least am will clean up whitespace when we receive
+ # their patch.
+ unless (@files) {
+ use Test::More;
+ plan skip_all => "Skipping tests probably because you don't have git.";
+ exit 0;
+ }
+}
+
+use Test::More tests => scalar(@files);
+
+foreach my $f (@files) {
+ open(my $fh, $f) or die;
+ my $before = do { local $/; <$fh>; };
+ close ($fh);
+ my $after = $before;
+ $after =~ s/\t/ /g;
+ $after =~ s/ +$//mg;
+ $after .= "\n" unless $after =~ /\n$/;
+ ok ($after eq $before, "$f (see devtools/clean-whitespace.pl)");
+}