Add a GitHub workflow to check for whitespace issues

If it fails you can check the 'git log --check' output of the workflow
to see what the issue is. E.g

  --- 93ec0133 Oops...
  README.md:1: trailing whitespace.
  +# NGINX Unit

Signed-off-by: Andrew Clayton <a.clayton@nginx.com>

1 files changed, 48 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/.github/workflows/check-whitespace.yaml b/.github/workflows/check-whitespace.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..75f0afe4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/check-whitespace.yaml
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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.
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    types: [ opened, synchronize ]
+
+jobs:
+  check-whitespace:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      with:
+        fetch-depth: 0
+
+    - 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" ${{github.event.pull_request.base.sha}}..)
+
+        if test -n "${log}"
+        then
+          exit 2
+        fi