[LTP] [PATCH v3 1/1] editorconfig: add consistent formatting rules for LTP

[LTP] [PATCH v3 1/1] editorconfig: add consistent formatting rules for LTP

[Jan Polensky]

Introduce .editorconfig to keep indentation and whitespace consistent across
editors, preventing accidental reformatting and noisy diffs.

Signed-off-by: Jan Polensky <japo@linux.ibm.com>
---

Changes since v2:
- Use kernel-style tabs for C/ASM/shell. (Thanks Andrea, Petr)
- Split Python/Perl indentation: *.py uses 4 spaces; *.pl keeps tabs.
  (Thanks Andrea)

Changes since v1 (thanks Petr):
- License identifier: GPL-2.0 -> GPL-2.0-or-later
- Drop awk
- Treat Python/Perl special files
- indent_size=4 for *.{c,h,S,sh} and ver_linux
- Fix indent_size for .rst/.md to 4

 .editorconfig | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .editorconfig

diff --git a/.editorconfig b/.editorconfig
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b09145a3332f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.editorconfig
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+
+root = true
+
+# Default for all files
+[*]
+charset = utf-8
+end_of_line = lf
+insert_final_newline = true
+trim_trailing_whitespace = true
+tab_width = 8
+
+# C/Assembly source files, headers, and shell files use tabs
+[{*.{c,h,S,sh},ver_linux}]
+indent_style = tab
+indent_size = tab
+
+[{Makefile,Makefile.*,*.{mk.in,mk}}]
+indent_style = tab
+indent_size = tab
+
+[*.py]
+indent_style = space
+indent_size  = 4
+
+[*.pl]
+indent_style = tab
+indent_size = tab
+
+# Exceptions use spaces: Python (Sphinx, scripts), Perl (checkbashisms.pl vendored)
+[{doc/conf.py,scripts/*.py,scripts/checkbashisms.pl}]
+indent_style = space
+indent_size = 4
+
+# Documentation files
+[*.{rst,md}]
+indent_style = space
+indent_size = 4
+
+# JSON files
+[*.json]
+indent_style = space
+indent_size = 4
--
2.53.0


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Re: [LTP] [PATCH v3 1/1] editorconfig: add consistent formatting rules for LTP

[Li Wang via ltp]

This is a nice improvement, patch merged, thanks!

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Li Wang


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Re: [LTP] [PATCH v3 1/1] editorconfig: add consistent formatting rules for LTP

[Li Wang via ltp]

> This is a nice improvement, patch merged, thanks!

Oh, sorry, I actually merged another patch, but wrongly replied to this email.

  https://lists.linux.it/pipermail/ltp/2026-April/047395.html


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Re: [LTP] [PATCH v3 1/1] editorconfig: add consistent formatting rules for LTP

[Li Wang via ltp]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 10:00:26PM +0200, Jan Polensky wrote:
> Introduce .editorconfig to keep indentation and whitespace consistent across
> editors, preventing accidental reformatting and noisy diffs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Polensky <japo@linux.ibm.com>

Woo! I replied to the wrong post, but I didn't say anything wrong.
This patch is also very good.

I would leave Petr or Andrea to merge it.
Anyway:

Reviewed-by: Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com>

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