Massive detabbing of the source

[Alexander Kjeldaas]

 On Jan 18, 2013 10:17 AM, "Jan Stolarek" <jan.stolarek at p.lodz.pl> wrote:

> > I don't think it's worth the bother either: conflicts are a pain and
> > slow down development, whereas tabs don't. (...) there certainly are a
> > few active branches with large-scale changes.
> That's another good point.
>
> I looked through the git history and it seems there are actually few
> tabbed files that weren't
> touched for the last 6 months. It follows that tabbed files that people
> work on are not being
> actually detabbed by them, unless the policy is to detab only the parts
> that are modified, not
> the whole file.
>
> I won't do this massive detabbing of the whole source since it indeed
> could cause more problems
> than profits, but my opinion is that at some point detabbing should be
> just done or otherwise
> those -fno-warn pragmas and tabs will stay in the source code forever.
> Perhaps it would be a good
> idea to detab a bunch of files every month?
>
>
Well if this is true, then I think you could solve this simply by looking
for this in a git commit hook or some other hook.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3985463/prevent-pushes-to-git-containing-tabs-in-certain-files-e-g-cpp-h-cmakeli
https://github.com/mrc/git-hook-library

Alexander
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