Re: Indentation style: public/private/protected/case
On Oct 22, 7:50 pm, Kenneth Porter <shiva.blackl...@sewingwitch.com>
wrote:
"Bo Persson" <b...@gmb.dk> wrote innews:5o0stnFkfqm3U1@mid.individual.net:
[...]
The version control system is Subversion. It doesn't care about the format
of files. It can be told that a file is text and will do line-ending
conversion but it won't re-indent files, because that's potentially a
higher-level semantic change. (For example, that would really screw up
Python source, where indentation is part of the syntax.)
If the version control system doesn't allow you to insert
scripts before insertion, it's time to replace it with something
else. Immediately. You definitly want to automatically run
your unit tests before check in, and reject the check in if they
fail. If you're able to do this, it's trivial to insert an
additional tool to reformat.
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