Rick Gutleber wrote:
> Ah, tabs, the bane of my existence, which is why I made a point to never
> use them about, oh, 20 years ago.
I'd be happier using spaces if the editors I used would treat them
exactly like tabs. :) Some editors the kids are using these days don't
quite get how to do this. If it takes me 4 keystrokes to cursor through
an indent level, I'm back to tabs.
> I realized there were whitespace
> changes in the patch, some of which seemed to have been caused by
> trailing white space on lines (which I have my editor set to strip) in
> addition to tabs vs. spaces. I redid my changes to eliminate some of
> it, but should have done more.
It can be tricky to back such changes out, because it isn't obvious what
whitespace is needed to pacify svn's diff.
I find that the simplest method is to make a copy of the patch file,
revert your changes, hand-hack the patch to remove the unwanted change
lines, and reapply it. The hard part is not breaking the patch, which
is why you keep a pristine copy. Do this enough times and you figure
out what's precious to patch(1) and what isn't.
> I also wasn't sure what the convention was because mysql++.bkl didn't
> have tabs (actually it has a couple, but mostly not).
Fixed.
I said "documentation" above, but it's really more general than that. I
use spaces, size 2 indents, for HTML or anything XMLish, due to the high
levels of indenting you often get.
> I suppose I should have just asked.
I'll put it in HACKERS.txt
