From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>, Junio Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add line-wrapping guidelines to the coding style documentation
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:19:27 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711141717570.4362@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56A87A65-3C2E-4E10-84D4-4470879EE466@wincent.com>
Hi,
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
> Help new contributors by providing some advice about line-wrapping; the
> advice basically boils down to "use 80-characters minus some slop as a
> rule of thumb", but also "use common sense", and "avoid gratuitous
> rewrapping".
We already have this:
- We try to keep to at most 80 characters per line.
Besides, is it really necessary to be as explicit as you word it? IOW is
this patch needed?
Because if we go down that road, we might very well end up with a
CodingGuidelines document that is larger than git's source code.
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-14 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-14 10:19 [PATCH] Add line-wrapping guidelines to the coding style documentation Wincent Colaiuta
2007-11-14 10:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-14 17:19 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2007-11-14 19:00 ` [PATCH v3] " Wincent Colaiuta
2007-11-14 19:08 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-14 20:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-14 20:23 ` Wincent Colaiuta
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