On Mon, 16 Jan 2023 16:50:06 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <i...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> [JDK-8295729](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8295729) was created in an >> attempt to remove all trailing whitespace from properties files, and enable >> a jcheck verification that they did not come back, similar to other source >> code. It turned out that this was not so simple, however, since trailing >> whitespace in values is actually significant in properties files. >> >> To address this, I have opened four bugs on different component teams to >> either remove the trailing significant whitespace (if it is there >> erroneously), or convert it to the unicode sequence `\u0020`: >> [JDK-8298042](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8298042), >> [JDK-8298044](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8298044), >> [JDK-8298045](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8298045) and >> [JDK-8298046](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8298046). >> >> That leaves all the other trailing spaces, in blank lines and in the end of >> comments. These serve no purpose and should just be removed, and is what >> this issue concerns. >> >> When this and the four "significant whitespace" bugs are all finally >> integrated, we can finally turn on the verification in jcheck for properties >> files as well. >> >> The changes in this PR is based on >> [JDK-8295729](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8295729), in #10792. I >> have restored all the "delete trailing whitespace" changes, except for those >> with significance. These changes were in turned created by running `find . >> -type f -iname "*.properties" | xargs gsed -i -e 's/[ \t]*$//'`. > > Magnus Ihse Bursie has updated the pull request with a new target base due to > a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains two commits: > > - Merge branch 'master' into properties-eol-clean-safe > - 8298047: Remove all non-significant trailing whitespace from properties > files I've posted the suggetion to add .editorconfig on ide-support-dev, however, the list does not seem to be active: https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/ide-support-dev/2023-June/000281.html ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11491#issuecomment-1605290913
