What's wrong with configuring your editor to convert tabs to spaces? I
know CodeBlocks, Vim and Notepad++ do this for you if you configure them
right (though I don't remember exactly how to configure Vim to do this).
Any other editor worth its salt should, too. I use this for all my
code, not just Phobos. I prefer to type a tab because it's much easier
to type than some specific number of spaces, but I prefer to have spaces
in my code because they take up a consistent amount of columns on all
viewers, whereas different tab stops can really make your code look messy.
On 8/14/2011 2:36 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Ok, I'm one of the "tab-indent" fans, and obviously there are others out
there. So in contributing some pull requests to phobos/rdmd I've noticed how
easy it is to forget to convert tabs->spaces before pushing. And others make
the same mistake too. Aside from being an inconsistent syle issue, this
seems to increase the chances of merge conflicts.
Obviously I could set up some script on my end to auto-check before
committing, but that's a per-user solution and so wouldn't really help the
overall problem. Plus it probably wouldn't work with the GUI git tools like
tortoise.
I don't know if this has already been looked into, but to any git/github
gurus here: Is there some way to set up the "D-Programming-Language"
projects (either in git or in github) so that users get warned when they
have tab indents and try to commit, push, or pull-request (any one of those
three, wouldn't need to be all three of them)?
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