Re: Source reindenting

On 12/30/10, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 00:45, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>
> wrote:
>> Le 29/12/2010 18:44, Dave Page a écrit :
>>> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
>>> wrote:
>>>> I just did a testrun with astyle to reindent and restyle the code. I
>>>> created a rule in Makefile.am per:
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
>>>> index be6af45..8266f8d 100644
>>>> --- a/Makefile.am
>>>> +++ b/Makefile.am
>>>> @@ -65,3 +65,13 @@ endif
>>>> # We need to ensure the help cache is world writeable
>>>> install-data-hook:
>>>> chmod 0666 $(help_cache)
>>>> +
>>>> +# Perform astyle cleanup per rules:
>>>> +# * -p - insert space around parenthesis
>>>> +# * -b - bracket style
>>>> +# * -S - indent switches
>>>> +# * -s4 - intent with spaces, 4 of them
>>>
>>> Didn't we say we were going to move to tabs?
>>>
>>
>> Yes. Magnus probably forgot that part when I talked with him on IM this
>> morning (well, yesterday morning now).
>
> Do you also prefer tabs in the end, and just bite the even bigger bullet
> now?
>
>
>>>> It's going to cause merge conflicts like hell. but it's going to do
>>>> that whenever we run it. So should we just go ahead and run it?
>>>
>>> Why not? :-)
>>>
>>
>> The only patches not yet commited that I know of are the GSoC projects.
>> I know it won't be an issue for the database designer. Could be one for
>> your project.
>
> Yeah, it should only have an effect on modifications to *existing*
> files. Obviously, you'll want to run a "make style" over the new files
> before they are committed, but it shouldn't cause conflicts.
>
> Which, btw, is my suggested policy - always run "make style" before
> you commit (or at least before you push - but don't do it as a
> separate commit, so amend it into an existing commit in case it's done
> later). It only takes a couple of seconds over the whole tree... Seems
> reasonable?
>

Not unless you add a VC++ build step to do it too...

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