On 06/27/2015 01:18 AM, Richard Sandiford wrote:
Mikhail Maltsev <malts...@gmail.com> writes:
Perhaps one disappointing exception is mixed space/tabs indentation. It
is often inconsistent (i.e. some parts use space-only indentation).
Yeah. Been hitting that recently too.
commit-hooks are the solution to this class of problem, IMHO. Either by
rejecting code which violates the formatting standards or automagically
formatting it for us (via gnu-indent presumably).
I believe glibc (for example) is using commit hooks to reject commits
that violate certain formatting rules. No reason we couldn't do the same.
Not sure what granularity that hooks uses -- ie, does it flag
preexisting formatting nits or just new ones. Either way works. The
former is a bit more burdensome initially, but does get the code base
into shape WRT formatting stuff more quickly.
Jeff
