This sort of thing drives me barmy - why can’t people set a standard on tabs?
The above snippet is taken from eJabberd (a Jabber Server written in Erlang). Notice how some lines are soft tabs, others are hard. The causes havoc when dealing with merging in source control (I don’t care if you use a new fangled Git approach). Whitespace (both tabs and line endings) must be consistent on programming projects. Much pain ensues if they are not!
Personally I set rules in SVN commit hooks. This means that if a developer has anything ‘bad’ like Windows Line Endings on a Python project, then it is dealt with accordingly.
Saves a lot of merge pain!
September 27th, 2008 |