On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 07:31:35PM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > On Jul 25 2007 02:22, Paul Mundt wrote:
> >> Perhaps CodingStyle can start being versioned, so people can opt out of
> >> certain 'improvements' whenever someone has a vision, much like some
> >> nameless licenses.
> >
> > I'd say Codingstyle is versioned by means of git commit IDs.
> >
> >> Personally I prefer the second style, and if there's a comment block,
> >> then it makes sense to complete the tree with {}'s (the keyword here is
> >> prefer, as it's a personal preference). checkpatch has been quite useful
> >> for catching obviously broken things, and now it seems like it's just
> >> overreaching. Perhaps this functionality can be split in to a lite
> >> checkpatch for catching show-stoppers for application and then something
> >> more akin to a CodingStyle validator for the folks interested in
> >> arbitrarily defining convention, which they can use freely while the rest
> >> of us try to get something useful done.
> >
> > /me thinks of ... checkpath --check-me-harder
>
> Yep I think the consensus is we need a
> "--i-don't-agree-just-check-things-which-will-get-me-rejected-out-of-hand"
> option of some sort which will restrict output to the real errors.
No, the default should be to show only the real errors.
> -apw
cu
Adrian
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