+1
On Jun 22, 2012, at 9:45 AM, David Nalley wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> While working on CloudStack I noticed that a lot of files still use tabs
>> instead of spaces.
>>
>> I've been working on the agent mainly and there it seems bad.
>>
>> The coding convention [0] says:
>>
>> "Must indent with space not tabs. Indentation = 4 spaces"
>>
>> Now, I'm sure this is legacy, but would anybody vote against fixing this?
>>
>> A simple find + sed could fix a lot:
>>
>> $ find -name '*.java' -exec sed -i --posix -e 's/\t/ /g' {} \;
>>
>> I would want to try with the agent first and see how that works out, later
>> on we can fix other components like api, core and server.
>>
>> Objections? Suggestions?
>>
>> Wido
>>
>> [0]:
>> http://docs.cloudstack.org/CloudStack_Documentation/Design_Documents/Coding_Conventions
>
> A couple of comments - (and I don't know what infra's take on
> pre-commit hooks is, they may be verboten)
>
> Before this work started I'd like to see a pre-commit hook that
> rejects commits with tabs, so that we stop the problem. (I also want
> to see testing for line endings) Line endings and spaces are easy
> places to start from a coding convention requirement phase, and we can
> continue to build that up.
>
> Aside from that, I'd love to see this done.
>
> --David
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