RE: [boost] Tabs creep back into source files

From: David Bergman (davidb_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-09 21:31:07

Beman,

Whatever policy chosen, it will cause problems if developers do not
follow it, yes. I do not see how that can be an argument for either the
"tabs" or "spaces" policy...

/David

-----Original Message-----
From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden]
[mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Beman Dawes
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 12:25 PM
To: boost_at_[hidden]
Subject: Re: [boost] Tabs creep back into source files

At 11:56 AM 9/9/2002, =?Windows-1252?Q?Terje_Sletteb=F8?= wrote:

 >More or less all editors have support for
 >tabs, and for setting the tab size.

What has happened in the past was something like this:

* Developer A of library has tabs set for 4.
* Developer B commits trivial fix. Developer B's editor had tabs set at
2, 
but converted tabs on the changed line only to spaces.

It resulted in messed up source files.

We even had several files only touched by a single developer, but
sometimes 
spaces were used, and sometimes tabs.

Again, it resulted in messed up source files.

--Beman
    

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