Allow (and ignore) whitespace-only lines in .gitignore files

Git considers these to be blank lines.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/gitignore.rs b/src/gitignore.rs
index e05dc582..c4f46fa0 100644
--- a/src/gitignore.rs
+++ b/src/gitignore.rs
@@ -283,12 +283,15 @@ impl GitignoreBuilder {
         from: P,
         mut line: &str,
     ) -> Result<(), Error> {
-        if line.is_empty() || line.starts_with("#") {
+        if line.starts_with("#") {
             return Ok(());
         }
         if !line.ends_with("\\ ") {
             line = line.trim_right();
         }
+        if line.is_empty() {
+            return Ok(());
+        }
         let mut pat = Pattern {
             from: from.as_ref().to_path_buf(),
             original: line.to_string(),