Difference between revisions of "Preparing a Patch for Review"
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| − | * Avoid saving tab characters in the patch. The main reason is that different text editors use different defaults to interpret tab characters as spaces. Also some people like to set 8 spaces as the default for a tab character while others prefer 4 or 3. The | + | * Avoid saving tab characters in the patch. The main reason is that different text editors use different defaults to interpret tab characters as spaces. Also some people like to set 8 spaces as the default for a tab character while others prefer 4 or 3. |
| − | end result is that the proposed code will look unformatted, making hard to the eye to read and follow the code indentations. | + | The end result is that the proposed code will look unformatted, making hard to the eye to read and follow the code indentations. |
Revision as of 21:16, 30 August 2012
Best Practices
- Avoid saving tab characters in the patch. The main reason is that different text editors use different defaults to interpret tab characters as spaces. Also some people like to set 8 spaces as the default for a tab character while others prefer 4 or 3.
The end result is that the proposed code will look unformatted, making hard to the eye to read and follow the code indentations.
