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Re: [babel-dev] tapiji patches - whitespace errors

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for asking.

We only require that you do not commit additional features at the same time you commit approved code, since the provenance of the new features becomes unclear. In this case, whitespace doesn't count since it does not affect the actual code. Personally, I would prefer b) but please proceed with a) or b) as you'd like. It doesn't matter.

In terms of coding guidelines, you are free to follow those set forth by the Eclipse Platform project:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Development_Conventions_and_Guidelines

These are simply guidelines, however, and nothing there is strictly enforced. Eclipse committers are implicitly known as the best programmers in the world, and everyone knows the new code you commit to our repositories is high quality :-)

Thanks,

Denis


On 11/06/2012 09:36 AM, Stefan Strobl wrote:
Hi

when preparing the commits of our two patches we discovered that git reports a significant amount of whitespace errors. Unfortunately this only appeared now as we tested the patches when babel was still in the CVS repository. Anyhow we would of course prefer to

It looks like we have a two options on how to adress this issue:

a) fix the whitespace errors before commiting the initial patch (which might be an issue with the IP team) b) fix the whitespace errors in a commit that comes right after the initial commit. (which persists the whitespace errors in the repositories history)

From our point of view, the two options are both feasible as neither has a significant overhead.

In addition we are wondering if there are any guidelines (either for eclipse code globally or specific for the babel project) on how to treat whitespace (e.g. indention with tabs vs. spaces) that we should adhere to when fixing the existing issues.

Anyway, please let us know your opinion and or preference regarding this issue,

thank you,
best regards,
Stefan



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