Re: [PATCH 1/1] lib: remove leading spaces before tabs

["Leizhen (ThunderTown)" <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>]

On 2021/6/9 13:15, Leizhen (ThunderTown) wrote:
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> On 2021/6/9 0:03, Joe Perches wrote:
>> On Tue, 2021-06-08 at 17:00 +0800, Leizhen (ThunderTown) wrote:
>>> On 2021/6/8 16:44, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 10:14 AM Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) Run the following command to find and remove the leading spaces before
>>>>>    tabs:
>>>>>    find lib/ -type f | xargs sed -r -i 's/^[ ]+\t/\t/'
>>>>
>>>> Hint for the future, try to use what Git provides, for example `git
>>>> ls-files -- lib/`.
>>>
>>> Okay, thanks. I learned a new trick.
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>> Perhaps another 'trick'.
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>> checkpatch has SPACE_BEFORE_TAB which does this for any spaces before
>> a tab, not just at the start of lines.  But as you've no doubt seen,
>> many maintainers do not care for this sort of whitespace only change
>> so it's best to do this sparingly or only in drivers/staging/ paths.
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> I've always thought of kernel, mm, and lib as the core modules of Linux,
> and they serve as showcases for successors. I'm not interested in making
> coding style improvements unless it's a work-related driver that I
> usually read.
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>> For instance:
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>> $ git diff --stat lib
>> $ git ls-files lib/ | \
>>   xargs ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --types=SPACE_BEFORE_TAB --fix-inplace

I just tried it. It's too slow.

The command I used earlier, removing the line start match "^", can also do that.

git ls-files lib/ | xargs sed -r -i 's/[ ]+\t/\t/'

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> Wow, It's so powerful. Thanks.
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