Should I cast my vote, or is it like voting D in California? 😎 On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Kevin Klues <[email protected]> wrote:
> +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. > > > > -- > ~Kevin > > -- > 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.
