Re: [PATCH] gdb, gdbserver, gdbsupport: fix leading space vs tabs issues

[Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>]

On 2020-09-14 12:25 p.m., Christian Biesinger wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 6:13 PM Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
> <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> wrote:
>>
>> Many spots incorrectly use only spaces for indentation (for example,
>> there are a lot of spots in ada-lang.c).  I've always found it awkward
>> when I needed to edit one of these spots: do I keep the original wrong
>> indentation, or do I fix it?  What if the lines around it are also
>> wrong, do I fix them too?  I probably don't want to fix them in the same
>> patch, to avoid adding noise to my patch.
>>
>> So I propose to fix as much as possible once and for all (hopefully).
>>
>> One typical counter argument for this is that it makes code archeology
>> more difficult, because git-blame will show this commit as the last
>> change for these lines.
> 
> For what it's worth, git blame offers a -w switch to ignore whitespace changes.
> 
> Christian
> 

I didn't know that, that's even better!

Simon