> At 01:32 PM 12/1/2005, Mark Shead wrote:
> >way your coders have a simple way to format everything correctly and
you
> >can use a pre-commit hook and the checkstyle tool to reject any
commits
> >where they forgot to run the formatter.
>
> Commits isn't the only place where different coding style may become a
> problem. A diff between the working base and the working copy can
also
> get
> screwed up by reformatted code.
I think you can specify a different diff program and tell it to ignore
white space. The gui diff program that comes with Tortoise does this.
At least it works with spacing changes within a single line. I've never
tried it on code where all of the layout had changed.
>
> I understand that I may need to adopt a coding standard in order to be
> compatible with Subversion. But that was exactly my question: is
there a
> way to make Subversion work the way I want? If the answer is an
absolute
> and definite 'No' then I'll have to change my ways. But then this
smells
> to me as the case of making a developer jump through hoops because
tool
> aren't flexible enough instead of having the tools making the
developer's
> life easier (not that Subversion hasn't eased our lives by so much
already
> :-), but we always want more).
There was a discussion about this last year here:
http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2004-02/0362.shtml
It sounds like even if it possible to change the files in a pre-commit
hook, it could break some other things and render your working copy
corrupt.
I've seen several messages that suggest that it is possible to modify a
file being committed using a pre-commit hook, but so far I haven't seen
any examples. So while it might be technically possible, it may involve
writing a lot of code.
In my opinion, on of the reasons for having a coding style in the first
place is to reduce the number of bugs due to sloppy formatting.
Formatting it after it is submitted would negate any of these benefits.
--Mark
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Received on Fri Dec 2 14:50:24 2005