[PD-dev] Re: CVS access

[guenter geiger]

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Larry Troxler wrote:
> <rant>
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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.

Hi Larry,

If it really disturbes you that much, the most efficient solution would be
to make yourself clever about the topic and contribute.

I am all for spaces instead of tabs.

>
> Apologies in advance

accepted.

Guenter

> 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.
>
> </rant>
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> Larry Troxler
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