Guys, I know it is late in the game, but if I am going to be working
on this project over the weekend I am going to go nuts dealing with
this.
I don't mind working with tabs (I prefer spaces), but I cannot work
with a code base that has every third line it changes between tabs
and spaces. My editor (vim) is going nuts trying to keep up, and
good luck reading commit logs and diffs (where the indentation is
bouncing around in and out).
What editors are you guys using such that this is going on? I assume
you are using Eclipse. Can you set it to only write spaces, and have
it automatically convert tabs to spaces? I think (at least one of
you) has it set (possibly by default) to automatically convert tabs
to spaces, but to indent using tabs, or vice versa.
Would anybody mind if I did this, at this late stage:
Convert the entire codebase to spaces.
Require everybody install the bzr-text-checker plugin.
Provide a bzr-text-checker rules file (attached).
This will mean that Bazaar will refuse to commit if you commit any
changes with:
Tabs
Trailing whitespace (whitespace after the last non-whitespace
character on a line)
No newline at the end of a file
Windows newlines
And it will warn you if you commit lines that are too long (but you
can turn this off if it bothers you as it doesn't bother me too much).
Therefore, you'll have to set Eclipse to behave and not insert any
more tabs, and if it does you'll be told about it.
If this is too much hassle, I won't do it, but ... I would really
like to. I will handle the converting of the codebase, so you don't
need to worry. I can wait until tonight when Scott has committed his
code, to make sure it doesn't happen when you guys have uncommitted
code, and then you'll just update and everything will be clean. But
there's no point in cleaning up the codebase without also enforcing
the above rules.
What do you think?
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