+1 to git hook (for future) and sed (for existing) -Mice
-----Original Message----- From: rohityada...@gmail.com [mailto:rohityada...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Rohit Yadav Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 4:37 PM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Commits with tabs & trailing white space On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Mice Xia <mice_...@tcloudcomputing.com> wrote: > Sateesh, > > I just run some scripts: > > find . -name *.java |wc -l > 4220 > > find . -name *.java | xargs egrep -c "^[[:space:]]+$" | grep -v 0 | > wc -l > 2117 Mice you want to run a sed cmd to fix all the java files? Just say it, I'll do it. Without ranting again about it, let me point to an old solution I use and suggest folks to follow: http://markmail.org/message/huy7ps5gncpf6asz Regards. > > So we have half java source files that have leading spaces in an empty line, > not to mention trailing spaces and tabs. > > If we are going to enforce this rule as a convention, instead of notifying > each commit that breaks this convention, I would suggest we automate this > correction. > > Regards > Mice > > -----Original Message----- > From: Devdeep Singh [mailto:devdeep.si...@citrix.com] > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 1:14 PM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: RE: Commits with tabs & trailing white space > > As a contributor if a patch is submitted, applying that patch will fail if it > has trailing whitespaces. Maybe we should honor the convention of not > submitting code/patches with trailing spaces too. > > Regards, > Devdeep > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Mice Xia [mailto:mice_...@tcloudcomputing.com] >> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 10:29 AM >> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org >> Subject: RE: Commits with tabs & trailing white space >> >> Leading spaces can be found everywhere in the codes, I think that's >> caused by IDE when intentionally leave an empty line. To me it's not >> a big deal and reviewboard provides "Hide Extra Whitespace & Hide Whitespace >> changes" >> to filter these. Tab should be avoided, we use 4 spaces indent by >> code convention. >> >> -Mice >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: David Nalley [mailto:da...@gnsa.us] >> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 12:44 PM >> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Commits with tabs & trailing white space >> >> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Sateesh Chodapuneedi >> <sateesh.chodapune...@citrix.com> wrote: >> > Seeing commits containing tab spaces and trailing white spaces. >> > Aren't we enforcing these checks? >> > >> > Regards, >> > Sateesh >> > >> >> We desperately need more folks looking at the commit mails and >> calling these issues out. (It looks like you are doing the first, how >> about sending the nudge when you see it) Replies to commit messages >> will by default hit cloudstack- dev. >> >> --David