Re: [RFC} running a formatter over the Java code

On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk> wrote:
> On 05/08/14 09:26, Noel Grandin wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > <Dons flame-proof suit>
> >
> > Would there be any objections to my running a formatter over the
> > existing Java LO code (with the exception of the newer Android stuff) ?
> >
> > Because at the moment
> > - it has very little consistency
> > - and it appears that at some point in time a tabs-to-spaces conversion
> > was done, but not all the files followed the same tab-size convention,
> > so some of the formatting is now REALLY out.
>
> If you're going to do that, can you investigate a git hook or whatever
> it is that will enforce that convention on commit?

No. Commit hooks should not _modify_ the content, ever!
you can have check, but no automagic rewriting.

Norbert