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[David Gomes <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I always tell people if they make their branches owned by
~elementary-dev-community I will volunteer to fix the code style myself. I
have all the free time and the will to do it, just people always make their
branches owned by themselves.

~David "Munchor" Gomes


On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Albert Palacios Jimenez <
optimisme@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Before talking about testing, and advanced development techniques for
> teams with resources, there is one easy and simple thing we can do to
> accelerate development.
>
> Sometimes (very often), bugs are stopped due spaces not following the
> "code style" guidelines. Adding a "code style" validator script before
> compiling, we can prevent uploads with spaces at the end of the lines ...
>  and save a lot of time.
>
> For example, just executing the next line before compiling:
>
> find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/[ \t]*$//'
>
> We will remove every "white space" at the end of any line, including new
> lines with tab spaces.
>
> This can sound stupid, but it is absurd to block bug fixes during several
> days due white spaces at the end of lines.
>
>
>
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