[PD-dev] Re: CVS access

[Chris McCormick]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 01:44:13PM -0500, Larry Troxler wrote:
> On Sunday 22 February 2004 13:39, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> > On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, guenter geiger wrote:
> > > On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> > > > I think I fixed it, by committing older versions back on top of my
> > > > versions.
> > > > In any case, I think I had to tell you...
> > >
> > > Ok, thanks, everything seems to be ok.
> > > I updated the HEAD to 0.37-1test6 and merged in the changes
> > > from millers version into devel_0_37.
> >
> > Ok, I have three questions:
> >
> > 1. All those changes you just merged in seem to have changed almost
> > every line in a lot of files. I thought it could be something like messing
> > with newline codes or switching between tabs and spaces, but it seems that
> > lines that only have one brace on it don't get modified. What is this?
> > Is it a change of indentation style? I usually try to avoid those, as they
> > make it more difficult to apply diffs / merge branches... What is your
> > opinion on this?
> >
> 
> <rant>
> 
> 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.
> 
> Apologies in advance 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>
> 
> Larry Troxler

Alright, I'll bite; what are your logical reasons for disliking hard tabs?

Chris.
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