On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 3:33 AM, Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Derick Rethans <der...@php.net> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 6 Jan 2015, Nikita Popov wrote:
>>
>> > On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 11:58 PM, Stanislav Malyshev <smalys...@gmail.com
>> >
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > The code in the PHP source repo has a lot of random dangling
>> > > whitespace at the end of lines, which looks sloppy and produces some
>> > > weird effects in diffs because some editors auto-clean it and some
>> > > do not. I'd like to clean it up (it's easy to do automatically) in
>> > > master, but this produces a big patch that may also create some
>> > > conflicts with existing pull reqs (easily resolved, but still). So,
>> > > I'd like to ask if there are any objections to such cleanup? If not,
>> > > then I'll do it, probably next weekend.
>>
>> Don't do it for just master, it makes automatic merging possibly a pain.
>> It should go to all "alive" branches, with properly merged up commits.
>>
>> > No objection to whitespace cleanup. iirc git even has options to
>> > ignore whitespace changes on merge/rebase.
>> >
>> > It would be nice to also add a pre-commit hook stripping trailing
>> > whitespace, to avoid this happening again.
>>
>> That would change a commit hash, or cause an extra commit. No thanks.
>>
>
> This is not how pre-commit hooks work.
>
> If we only want to check (as opposed to automatically fix), it would be
> enough to recommend enabling the default pre-commit hook in our git
> guidelines.

Even better than a server side hook, far less intrusive and rejecting
a commit when CS are broken before it even gets applied locally sounds
like the best solution so far.

For the reference, how to make it:
http://lostechies.com/jasonmeridth/2009/09/10/git-local-pre-commit-hook/

Now we only need a lint cmd call checking the PHP internals CS :)


-- 
Pierre

@pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org

-- 
PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List
To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Reply via email to