Indenting code?

[Chris Hegarty]

On 14/09/12 12:20, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 14/09/2012 01:21, Brad Wetmore wrote:
>> Netbean's automatic formatting does a pretty good job with new code.
>> However, I think the general advice is to not change existing code
>> just because.  When you're dealing with multiple release families, it
>> makes the merges much more difficult.
>>
>> Brad
> One think that Paul Sandoz suggested recently is that we should have a
> NB template that folks can use to avoid some discussions/debates on
> styles. It would be great for someone to run with that, the hard part is
> of course that it will be impossible to get agreement. Personally I find
> NB's defaults okay but there are several cases where its indenting is
> horrible.

I did play with NB somewhat trying to get it follow, exactly, the 
preferred style in some areas of the JDK code. I was able to get it 
close, or at least better than the default, but I don't believe it is 
possible to get it to do exactly what we want.

-Chris.

> Anyway, the main advice I think is to keep things locally consistent
> where possible. Also major refactoring or formatting in a bug fix is a
> royal pain for reviewers.
>
> -Alan