Re: spaces before tabs

From: Bruce Evans <bde_at_zeta.org.au>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 17:25:05 +1100 (EST)
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Colin Percival wrote:

> Thus spake style(9):
>  >     Do not add whitespace at the end of a line, and only use tabs
> followed by
>  >     spaces to form the indentation.  Do not use more spaces than a tab will
>  >     produce and do not use spaces in front of tabs.
>
>    There are somewhere around 6500 lines in 1000 files which violate this final
> rule.

Only that many (counting all #define\040 etc)? :-)

> Should I clean these up, or is it not worth bloating the repository for
> such cosmetic fixes?

It's too painful to do all at once IMO.  The repo bloat isn't much
(6500 * 40 characters + metadata?).

Bruce
Received on Sun Mar 14 2004 - 21:25:14 UTC

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