Does this handle the difference between indents in HotSpot (indent 2) vs the 
JDK (indent 4)? 

/Staffan

On 1 mar 2012, at 22:32, Kelly O'Hair wrote:

> 
> Need reviewer. Adding the whitespace normalizer script as a convenience to 
> the jdk developers.
> 
> 6625113: Add the normalize and rmkw perl script to the openjdk repository or 
> openjdk site?
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ohair/openjdk8/normalizer-script/webrev/
> 
> Probably a little history is warranted here. This script was originally 
> written to normalize the
> whitespace in the jdk7 sources as they entered the Mercurial repositories in 
> "changeset 0".
> It's been modified since then very slightly. I can't recall who wrote it 
> (please speak up if you know)
> but it has been a valuable tool and I've had this CR to add it to the 
> make/scripts directory for some time.
> 
> The SCCS keyword removed (rmkw) was less useful, and I decided that it did 
> not deserve being added.
> 
> Why whitespace normalization? This was decided a long time ago when we had a 
> raft of complaints from
> people viewing the sources with different tools and getting different views 
> based on the TABs and trailing
> blanks or trailing newlines. So we decided to normalize on no TABs, no 
> trailing blanks on lines, and
> no more than one blank line at the end of the file. This script was used to 
> do that normalization.
> 
> -kto
> 

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