Re: spaces before tabs

From: Bruce Evans (bde_at_zeta.org.au)
Date: 03/15/04

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To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>

    On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Colin Percival wrote:

    > Thus spake style(9):
    > > Do not add whitespace at the end of a line, and only use tabs
    > followed by
    > > spaces to form the indentation. Do not use more spaces than a tab will
    > > produce and do not use spaces in front of tabs.
    >
    > There are somewhere around 6500 lines in 1000 files which violate this final
    > rule.

    Only that many (counting all #define\040 etc)? :-)

    > Should I clean these up, or is it not worth bloating the repository for
    > such cosmetic fixes?

    It's too painful to do all at once IMO. The repo bloat isn't much
    (6500 * 40 characters + metadata?).

    Bruce
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