On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 01:44:13PM -0500, Larry Troxler wrote:
On Sunday 22 February 2004 13:39, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, guenter geiger wrote:
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
I think I fixed it, by committing older versions back on top of my versions. In any case, I think I had to tell you...
Ok, thanks, everything seems to be ok. I updated the HEAD to 0.37-1test6 and merged in the changes from millers version into devel_0_37.
Ok, I have three questions:
- All those changes you just merged in seem to have changed almost
every line in a lot of files. I thought it could be something like messing with newline codes or switching between tabs and spaces, but it seems that lines that only have one brace on it don't get modified. What is this? Is it a change of indentation style? I usually try to avoid those, as they make it more difficult to apply diffs / merge branches... What is your opinion on this?
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I brought this up a while ago, complaining about people still using hard tabs in source code. I don't know if this is the problem in this case. In the mean time, someone mentioned a switch for CVS to ignore whitespace - I don't remember it this applied to checkin, checkout, or both. Really, whitespace and newline differences should be none of the version control system's business, but I don't know how Sourceforge is configured by default.
Apologies in advance if this isn't the cause of your problem, but hard tabs are very, very bad, unless you're programming on a C64 and need to conserve floppy space. IMO If a programmer insists on using hard tabs, he or she should put a comment at the top of the source file specifying the tab spacing.
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Larry Troxler
Alright, I'll bite; what are your logical reasons for disliking hard tabs?
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