Re: Indentation (was Re: invalid installdirs values)

On Sep 27, 2008, at 22:01, Michael G Schwern wrote:

>> I don't understand the question.
>
> A blanket indentation change like running perltidy for the first  
> time creates
> a "history sheer", all lines will have been changed at that  
> revision.  So when
> you run "svn blame" you don't see the last significant change, you  
> see when
> perltidy was run.  It's annoying and means you have to do more  
> manually
> history searches.

Ah, I see. I always forget about that.

> Fortunately, svn blame can take diff arguments!  I did not know this.
> svn blame -x '-buw' will work to ignore whitspace.

Oh, neat trick!

>> It always prompts me, but doesn't seem to make any difference.
>
> Yeah, it doesn't do anything for me either.  Probably need to  
> frobnitz the
> right variables.

Right.

>> Um, can we have --indent-columns 4 please? And no tabs? Also,
>> ---maximum-line-length=78 is probably the minimum it should be, not  
>> 72.
>
> Agreed, this is all for naught if it's not set at some semi-standard  
> style.

Yep. See _Perl Best Practices_, p 19.

Best,

David