Enforcement of indentation [was Re: [parted-devel] avoid printf, when easy to do]

[Otavio Salvador]

David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com> writes:

>> Yes, I agree that we need to make it global but the problem is when we
>> should enforce it. David?
>
> Regarding enforcing formatting standards, I do not want a script to
> automatically check commits.  There's really no need for something like
> that when we could all check each other's patches before commit anyway.

I'm still not certain on it yet. Both has pros and cons.

While I think it's bad to reformat all code and commit a very huge
change for indentation fix I also think is boring to always take care
to verify the whole file, make a patch to enforce the style and then
go fix what you want.

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