C++ coding style inconsistencies

[Jeff Law]

On 06/27/2015 01:18 AM, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> Mikhail Maltsev <maltsevm@gmail.com> writes:
>> Perhaps one disappointing exception is mixed space/tabs indentation. It
>> is often inconsistent (i.e. some parts use space-only indentation).
>
> Yeah.  Been hitting that recently too.
commit-hooks are the solution to this class of problem, IMHO.  Either by 
rejecting code which violates the formatting standards or automagically 
formatting it for us (via gnu-indent presumably).

I believe glibc (for example) is using commit hooks to reject commits 
that violate certain formatting rules.  No reason we couldn't do the same.

Not sure what granularity that hooks uses -- ie, does it flag 
preexisting formatting nits or just new ones.  Either way works.  The 
former is a bit more burdensome initially, but does get the code base 
into shape WRT formatting stuff more quickly.

Jeff