+1 for b

Regards

Bernd

Matthias Wessendorf schrieb:
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 7:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> In the new checkstyle rules file I enabled checks for tab characters, as the
>> myfaces convention is (AFAIK) to use 4 spaces, not tabs. However the
>> checkstyle report points out a lot of files containing tabs.
>>
>> It's no big deal, but do we want to:
>> (a) disable the checkstyle rule and ignore tabs or
>> (b) fix them?
> 
> +1 for (b)
> 
> -M
> 
>> Tabs are a minor nuisance when viewing the source as some tools render 4
>> spaces, some 8.
>>
>> I've written a simple shellscript that can clean this up very easily, and am
>> happy to do so. The script also removes trailing whitespace from lines, of
>> which we also appear to have quite a lot.
>>
>> But doing this will create some large commit messages and make comparing
>> files with past versions noisier. It can also cause svn conflicts if people
>> have modified files they have not yet committed, unless they run the cleanup
>> script against their own working dir before doing svn update.
>>
>> So, option (a) or (b)?
>>
>> Regards, Simon
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 

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