[MPlayer-dev-eng] Trailing whitespace removal and precommit hooks

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 08:13:58PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 10:31:43PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 10:11:45PM +0100, Roberto Togni wrote:
> > [...]
> > > And I'm against any kind of precommit scripts: something that aborts a
> > > commit for silly reasons is very annoying.
> > 
> > IMO it's not a silly reason, because after intensively reworking some
> > code I often waste quite a bit of time to reduce the size of the patch
> > by reading such trailing whitespace (esp. the ones that are alone on a
> > single line). It also helps people committing patches from other people
> > who do not want to add such whitespace.
> 
> I have to agree with Reimar here.
> 
> Removing all trailing whitespace and then not adding a pre-commit script
> is rather pointless as it will quickly get added back.  I'm speaking
> >from experience here as I was the person who removed all trailing
> whitespace and tabs from FFmpeg.  When I installed pre-commit script
> afterwards, quite a few tabs and trailing whitespace had snuck into the
> sources again.
> 
> Mechanical checks may be an annoyance but they are there to protect
> against one's own stupidity.  It's like a regression test, it's there to
> catch mistakes ...

additionally if anyone is annoyed by it he can just configure his editor
to remove trailing whitespace or use a little script to run sed over the
files and then svn di / svn ci or somethig like that



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