There is only issue I see with expanding tabs, and fixing trailing
whitespaces => merge conflicts! (yes we can always ignore space
changes but...)
Should we do it?

Regards.

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Mice Xia <[email protected]> wrote:
> +1 to git hook (for future) and sed (for existing)
>
> -Mice
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> Rohit Yadav
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 4:37 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Commits with tabs & trailing white space
>
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Mice Xia <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> Sateesh,
>>
>> I just run some scripts:
>>
>> find . -name *.java |wc -l
>> 4220
>>
>> find . -name *.java | xargs egrep -c "^[[:space:]]+$"  | grep -v 0 |
>> wc -l
>> 2117
>
> Mice you want to run a sed cmd to fix all the java files? Just say it, I'll 
> do it.
> Without ranting again about it, let me point to an old solution I use and 
> suggest folks to follow:
> http://markmail.org/message/huy7ps5gncpf6asz
>
> Regards.
>
>>
>> So we have half java source files that have leading spaces in an empty line, 
>> not to mention trailing spaces and tabs.
>>
>> If we are going to enforce this rule as a convention, instead of notifying 
>> each commit that breaks this convention, I would suggest we automate this 
>> correction.
>>
>> Regards
>> Mice
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Devdeep Singh [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 1:14 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: RE: Commits with tabs & trailing white space
>>
>> As a contributor if a patch is submitted, applying that patch will fail if 
>> it has trailing whitespaces. Maybe we should honor the convention of not 
>> submitting code/patches with trailing spaces too.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Devdeep
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Mice Xia [mailto:[email protected]]
>>> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 10:29 AM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: RE: Commits with tabs & trailing white space
>>>
>>> Leading spaces can be found everywhere in the codes, I think that's
>>> caused by IDE when intentionally leave an empty line. To me it's not
>>> a big deal and reviewboard provides "Hide Extra Whitespace & Hide 
>>> Whitespace changes"
>>> to filter these. Tab should be avoided, we use 4 spaces indent by
>>> code convention.
>>>
>>> -Mice
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: David Nalley [mailto:[email protected]]
>>> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 12:44 PM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: Commits with tabs & trailing white space
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Sateesh Chodapuneedi
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > Seeing commits containing tab spaces and trailing white spaces.
>>> > Aren't we enforcing these checks?
>>> >
>>> > Regards,
>>> > Sateesh
>>> >
>>>
>>> We desperately need more folks looking at the commit mails and
>>> calling these issues out. (It looks like you are doing the first, how
>>> about sending the nudge when you see it) Replies to commit messages
>>> will by default hit cloudstack- dev.
>>>
>>> --David

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