[asdf-devel] How about a tabs versus spaces policy for asdf?

[Robert P. Goldman]

Only .lisp and .asd sounds sufficient to me, but Gary wrote a lot of  
shell scripts  I haven't really looked at. I don't have a strong  
opinion about the documentation source (perhaps surprisingly).
Best,
R

On Dec 2, 2009, at 20:54, Daniel Herring <dherring at tentpost.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Faré wrote:
>
>> 2009/12/2 Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info>:
>>> I should actually have been specific about something else:
>>>
>>> If we prefer spaces to tabs (and I will not attempt to stack my
>>> eloquence and vituperation against jwz's), we should probably  
>>> stick the
>>> git-equivalent of a pre-commit-hook into the repo to refuse to  
>>> accept tabs.
>>>
>>> Daniel --- is your git fu strong enough for this task?
>
> It could be.  This would require putting the proper hooks/pre-commit  
> file in a .git directory.  Should it check all files in the project,  
> or only lisp sources?
>
>
>> In either case, git-fu is nice. And if git-fu there be, can we also
>> eliminate trailing whitespace?
>
> See core.whitespace in the git-config manpage; by default git warns  
> about trailing whitespace.  Commands that apply patches (e.g. git- 
> apply and git-am) have an option to control this; --whitespace=error  
> or --whitespace=fix might be what you want.  This choice can be made  
> permanent by something like
> # git config apply.whitespace error
>
> Also look at the gitattributes manpage.
>
> - Daniel
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