[Findutils-patches] Re: [PATCH 03/19] Fix some space-followed-by-tab sequences.

[Eric Blake]

On 04/02/2010 04:47 PM, James Youngman wrote:
> * NEWS: Change space-tab sequences to just spaces.
> * build-aux/check-testfiles.sh (main): Likewise
> * build-aux/src-sniff.py (checkers): Likewise.
> * find/Makefile.am: Likewise.
> * find/testsuite/find.posix/sv-bug-25359.exp: Likewise.
> * import-gnulib.sh (check_merge_driver): Likewise.
> * m4/withfts.m4 (FIND_WITH_FTS): Likewise.
> * cfg.mk (false_positives): Explain why we can't enable the
> sc_space_tab check (xargs .xo test files).

If you didn't know it already, it is sometimes better to enable a test
and just exempt the files that cannot pass the test, then it is to
globally disable the test.  To exempt a given file, list its name in the
file .x-sc_space_tab in the top-level source dir.  To be reproducible,
you'd then want to make that file EXTRA_DIST.  Coreutils has a few of
those .x-sc_* files, along with a clever extra rule in cfg.mk to ensure
that we don't forget to distribute any of them.

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