Re: Stopping XCode From Inserting Tab Characters
Re: Stopping XCode From Inserting Tab Characters
- Subject: Re: Stopping XCode From Inserting Tab Characters
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:34:02 -0700
This isn't a problem until you are not the only developer working on the file.
Dude, I've been working with shared files and VCS for decades. And I never noticed a problem with invisible whitespace, until I went to Google in 2008 and their coding standards were all OCD about it. At which point these unseen characters get changed and at best show up as diffs (that can be ignored) or detected as conflicts by merge tools. Then it becomes a pain.
Pretty much every diff/merge tool can be told to ignore trailing whitespace. I think it's a better idea to make our tools adapt to us, rather than the other way around.
Still, I recognize this is a religious issue, and it's a nice thing that Xcode takes care of it now, so there's nothing really to argue about :)
—Jens |
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