From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Daniel Hackney <dan@haxney.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: The grand indentation unification project
Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 01:12:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzk8sucaf.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMqXDZti6sMmYbQ6f-imrH3RG1=+tK3yPMB_f1-qCG_n9G6bYA@mail.gmail.com> (Daniel Hackney's message of "Sun, 27 May 2012 13:32:13 -0400")
> Yes, it would, but the idea would be to set `indent-tabs-mode' to t, add
> `whitespace-cleanup to `before-save-hook', and have a single massive,
> horrible, ugly "whitespace unification" commit, and then everything after
> that follows the tab indent and whitespace styles. That way, you'd have one
> big patch with all the whitespace changes, but future patches wouldn't have
> any whitespace-only diffs.
Still sucks for everyone who's got a branch to keep in sync.
The problems you complain about (conflicts due to whitespace changes)
pretty much only show up because of such "helpful" commits.
So, no, we don't want any of that. OTOH we would accept changes which
will enforce such "canonical spacing" in future commits (i.e. enforce
this canonicity but only on lines which are already changed for other
reasons anyway, thus not introducing new gratuitous conflicts).
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-28 5:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-26 19:45 The grand indentation unification project Daniel Hackney
2012-05-26 20:05 ` Glenn Morris
2012-05-27 9:28 ` Juri Linkov
2012-05-27 14:42 ` Daniel Hackney
2012-05-27 17:13 ` Miles Bader
2012-05-27 17:32 ` Daniel Hackney
2012-05-28 5:12 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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