[sakai-core-team] whitespace changes

[Earle Nietzel]

just use "git blame -w" and whitespace is ignored maybe even create and
alias to it.

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Matthew Buckett <
matthew.buckett at it.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 27 February 2015 at 15:03, Brian Jones <bjones86 at uwo.ca> wrote:
> > I don't think we should do a massive re-write of everything to one
> > standard; the history is important and if this were going to be done,
> > the optimal time to do so would have been during the migration to
> > Github, as Sam mentioned.
>
> Doing a re-write of history would been very slow (and possibly hard)
> as you'd probably have to checkout each revision rather than doing any
> of the tricks filter-branch has on offer.
>
> > My original inquiry was geared more towards just cleaning up a single or
> > set of files that I'm working on for whatever feature I'm currently
> > developing. It just makes my eyes bleed when I see files that have some
> > sections using spaces, some sections using tabs, and then sometimes even
> > sections with mixed tabs and spaces all in the same lines :( Maybe
> > that's just my OCD...
>
> Personally if you change >50% lines in a method I think it's
> reasonable to re-indent the whole method to the same style as the rest
> of the file. I don't see this as a hard rule, just a guide.
>
> I'm with you though about having both tabs and spaces on the same
> line... It's at that point I think maybe I should just turn off
> whitespace highlighting for the next few hours.
>
> > That being said, I'm all for setting a standard going forwards for any
> > new files/projects being added. A standard will improve readability of
> > code and assist anyone looking at a piece of code for the first time.
> > Personally, I'm in favour of spaces over tabs, but we would have to have
> > some sort of poll to gauge everyone's opinion.
>
> Some reasonable standards:
>
> https://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javaguide.html
>
>
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/documentation/codeconvtoc-136057.html
>
> The Eclipse default (couldn't find webpage for this).
>
> Personally I'm not too fussed about which standard, I'm happy with the
> majority, just so long as there is a formatter for it.
>
> While we're at it what about .xml files/.html/.js/.jsp files?
>
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