RE: braces, indent and use of tabs.

["Dennis E. Hamilton" <or...@apache.org>]

This is the third time I'm sending this and it doesn't show up on the list.  I am using a different sender address just to see what's up.

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From: Peter Kelly [mailto:pmkelly@apache.org] 
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2014 05:33
To: dev@corinthia.incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: {}, indent and use of tabs.

> On 28 Dec 2014, at 8:29 pm, Peter Kelly <pm...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> I suggest that we stick to a common convention, and furthermore propose to use the convention already followed by the codebase:
> 
> 1. Indentation is four spaces. No tabs (they can cause confusion due to people having different editing settings).
> 2. Open brace follows if, while, do, structs, and enums on the same line. Open brace starts on a new line for functions.
> 3. Unix line endings for all files (to avoid complications with diffs)

Incidentally I think this can be enforced with a git configuration option (can’t remember off the top of my head, but am pretty sure there’s one that deals with line ending conversion based on the platform).

<orcmid>
    I think the use of soft tabs (use of spaces instead) and any help with formatting around "{" ... "}" are handled in editors or manually depending on how one works on the source code.  

    I will honor the K&R convention established by Peter.  

    The general rule of open-source etiquette is that folks who work on a code base honor the conventions that are there and don't inject different formatting.  I will honor that.  Thanks for being specific about it, Peter.

    The line-ending does have controls in SVN and Git configurations.  So long as a file is known to be text, there are controls in place.  Here is GitHub on the subject, 
<https://help.github.com/articles/dealing-with-line-endings/>.

    Note that it is very important to be certain that Git knows what files *not* to make these adjustments on, since it will damage binaries too when they are not excluded from treatment as text.  I don't know how much this impacts PGP-signed material.

    I suggest the .gitattributes approach be set up in the Corinthia repository with text=auto and the indicated examples.  After that is done, those of us using Windows may need to re-clone the repository to have everything in sync.

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