[MERGE] Less bazaar coding style regressions.

[Marius Kruger]

2008/12/9 Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com>

> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Marius Kruger <amanic at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Like John, I think I'd prefer this be done in test_source
> >
> > thats done in the latest patch
> >
> >>
> >> and check
> >> the whole working tree, except for things that are specifically
> >> excluded, such as copied-in library source.  Then there's no chance of
> >> missing things that are committed without checking them.  If there are
> >> already things that would fail, let's just fix them up.
> >
> > Uhm, last time I checked, the bazaar source is riddled with trailing
> white
> > space, try:
> > bzr.dev>$ find -iname "*.py" | xargs grep -n -e ".* $" |wc -l
> > 3319
> >
> > People have tried to remove it previously, but got it shot down. See eg:
> > http://www.nabble.com/-MERGE--whitespace-normalization-td18634412.html
>
> That thread got a bit broad and a bit bikesheddy.  (Which is not to
> say everyone in that thread was bikeshedding.)  Also, the proposed
> change "normalization" there seems broader and maybe more error prone
> than just stripping trailing whitespace.
>
> Trailing whitespace is not really a pain point for me but obviously it
> is for you or you wouldn't be posting?

It was initially, but I've adapted to using bzr cdiff --check-style before I
submit patches.
Though, it would be easier to just let the IDE remove all trailing white
space
all the time. Then I don't have to worry about it.
I've seen others complaining about it, so I thought we can at least prevent
the situation from getting worse.


> If we're going to address it
> I'd rather have a proper test along the lines of test_source that
> doesn't look only at uncommitted changes, and doing that requires
> stripping out the existing whitespace.
>
> I'd merge a change that takes it off.  It's easy enough to catch up
> with this when merging later, and it'll avoid the issue coming back
> again.
>

I'd be happy to write a test that tests all the source for trailing white
space
and then make it pass, if there is a chance that it would get merged.
You do know that it is going to cause a lot of "spurious changes" and lots
of conflicts.
Are we willing to take the pain?

regards
marius
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