Update formatting script and use GitHub Actions

[aaronfranke]

This is a follow-up to #115 and #136. Over time I've made improvements to this script, so this PR updates it in this repo.

The tail command has been replaced with perl, which is more portable, as it also runs on macOS. There is also a set pipefail and IFS definition that properly define those for any OS that doesn't already do so. I also added a .gitattributes file, which tells Git to resolve line ending encoding problems automatically.

Aside from the script, the CI has been updated to use GitHub Actions. This is nicer than Travis or AppVeyor, the status and details are nicely integrated into GitHub, and if there are multiple jobs they can all be displayed individually. The CI won't run on this PR because it only runs if the config is already in the repo, but it will run after this PR is merged.

The second commit in this PR is just running the script, which removes many useless trailing spaces and tabs.

[UebelAndre]

Should this be rebased to fix the new formatting errors?

[aaronfranke]

@UebelAndre Thanks for the ping, I updated the PR. If it needs updating in the future, let me know.

[UebelAndre]

I think it's up to @richgel999 but I think it'd be good to separate linting from the build

[UebelAndre]

Does this require any manual action to enable? Or are GitHub actions enabled automatically based on something in the repo?

[aaronfranke]

@UebelAndre It should be automatically enabled, but there are also repo settings to turn it on and off.

[UebelAndre]

Just wondering if there's any info @richgel999 should have when should this PR get merged to make sure it's properly enabled

[UebelAndre]

@richgel999 hey, do you have a sec to look at this? It'd be really nice to separate the linting from the Linux build so it's more obvious what's wrong and when

[richgel999]

Yes, I'm working down the PR list. Please Standby.

[richgel999]

I will run the formatting script on v1.16 - the January release.

[aaronfranke]

@richgel999 @UebelAndre I know it's been a long time, but I updated the PR to use Python and pre-commit instead of a shell script. Compared to the old version of this PR, it gives the following advantages:

• Support for running the formatting script on Windows.
• Support for running the formatting script on MacOS/Linux without installing any OS-level dependencies: Simply install pre-commit via pip install pre-commit. The only OS-level dependency you need is to have Python installed. Then pre-commit run --all-files in the repo to run.
• Support for automatically running the formatting script on changed files when making a commit using Git's pre-commit hooks feature, if you opt-in via pre-commit install in the repo.

[UebelAndre]

Looks good to me!