Re: [boost] Tabs in source files

From: Daryle Walker (darylew_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-14 15:29:29

on 5/10/02 3:21 PM, Beman Dawes at bdawes_at_[hidden] wrote:

> At 01:13 PM 5/10/2002, Brad King wrote:
> 
>>> Tabs have been creeping into source files again.  Please replace
>>> by spaces.
>>> 
>>> Rather than wait until the last minute, I'm going to start running
>>> the tab check and long names checks once a month.
>> 
>> CVS supports checks like this on a per-commit basis.  If you add a file
>> called "commitinfo" to the CVSROOT directory on the server, you can get it
>> to run scripts to test each file and optionally abort the commit.
> 
> Wow! That would be a lot better than finding out long after the fact.
> Thanks for the info.
> 
> Does anyone know if SourceForge supports this, and how to go about it?
> 
> Could someone who feels comfortable writing a script for that environment
> volunteer to take this on?
> 
> I guess all we want to do is verify that all filesnames are 31 characters
> or less (current filter is grep -v -E "^.{0,31}$") and that ".cpp", ".cxx",
> ".h", ".hpp", and ".py" files have no tabs and end in cr, cr/nl, or nl.
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What about making sure that all the lines in a file are consistent with
their line-ending character sequences?

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Daryle Walker
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