The right balance on this is to set it up to only trim whitespace on lines that you have edited, and only on-save.
Emacs has ws-butler for that behavior: https://github.com/lewang/ws-butler
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All arabica coffee is genetically similar: how can beans taste so different?
How Long To Steep Cold Brew Coffee - We Tested
Coffee grind size chart generator
Has anyone ever tried mulled coffee?
You can store the Merkle trees inside of a SQLite database as extra columns attached to the data.
That way you get the benefits of a high-level query language and a robust storage layer as well as the cryptographic verification.
In fact, there is a version control system called Fossil which does exactly that:
https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki