+1 for switching over to the linux style completely. On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 8:03 PM, ron minnich <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the Go guys got it right: pick a format, enforce it with auto > formatter, and deal with some of the consequences. The linux style is fine > with me -- I always liked 8 spaces anyway. > > One of the harvey guys set up a clang format dotfile which is essentially > linux style, if you want it. It's a bit more consistent than lindent. > > ron > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 7:35 PM Dan Cross <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Barret Rhoden <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> [...] >>> >>> On occasion, I'm tempted to just switch over completely to the Linux >>> style, run checkpatch on the entire code base, and fix it all in one >>> fell swoop. The downside is that it'd mess up the git history a bit, >>> such that git blame wouldn't be as useful since a bunch of lines are >>> getting changed purely for formatting reasons. >> >> >> I could really get behind this; I've seen it done on a few really large >> projects now and inevitably it is not nearly as bad as one thinks it will >> be: there's sort of one great cataclysmic event in the source history that >> folks more or less learn they need to run blame around; it could be >> committed with a tag or something that would make it easy to run blame, >> diff, or whatever before or after The Great Reformatting of 2015. >> >> The Linux style isn't my personal preference, but I think it's more >> important that we have strictness and consistency than that any one style >> win over another. But if we're going to do it, I'd give you a whole dollar >> and take you to lunch if we moved the return type to a line by itself before >> the name of the function (I've never gotten into ctags et al, and that style >> makes it easy to use tools like 'grep' to find function definitions). >> >> - Dan C. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Akaros" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Akaros" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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