Re: [boost] [conversion] Enforcing tabs to spaces conversions and other git goodies.

Michael On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Beman Dawes wrote:

On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 5:00 AM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:

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On 28 November 2013 08:49, Cox, Michael wrote:

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In addition to re-normalizing the line endings, we could also start enforcing coding standards, e.g. tabs converted to spaces standard via gitconfig/gitattribute filters. Git allows you to define filters in your .git/config or ~/.gitconfig file and specifying their use in .gitattributes, e.g. in .gitconfig:

# Convert tabs to 4 spaces (uses Linux expand/unexpand commands, so not cross-platform) [filter "tabspace"] smudge = unexpand --tabs=4 --first-only clean = expand --tabs=4 --initial [...]

...automatically behind the scene? Scary!

IMHO, this belongs to commit hooks.

Qt's sanitize-commit may be a good example

https://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qtrepotools/source/b69da7d675774be14027808328eaf...

Michael and Mateusz,

Yes - sanitizing and commit hooks are important topics. But the way to handle them is to start a new thread so that they don't get lost in the line-ending bicycle shed discussion.

Thanks,

--Beman

Mateusz, I agree hooks have to be used for the "golden" boostorg repositories since folks may forget to configure their local/public repositories with the appropriate hooks/filters, but if Boost goes fully distributed like Linux, there may be a lot of integration repositories a change flows through on it's way to boostorg and it's probably best to get the code normalized as soon as possible. Michael