On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 06:39:21PM +0100, Jan Tulak wrote: > On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 10:53 PM Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 01:25:45PM +0100, Jan Tulak wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 12:48 PM Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 11:15:34AM +0100, Jan Tulak wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 11:34 PM Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 12:43:18PM +0100, Jan Tulak wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 2:36 AM Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 12:01:28PM +0100, Jan Tulak wrote: > > > > > > > > However, it's is the same change as what you originally posted to a > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yes, it is the same thing, with changes where I found something > > > > > > > misaligned on top. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > git tree, then it needs revision. basically, most of the change was > > > > > > > > converting vertically aligned function call parameters to use tabs, > > > > > > > > and that broke the vertical alignment. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > It is "s/ /\t/" limited to the beginning of the line. > > > > > > > > > > > > You mean 's/^ /\t/'? > > > > > > > > > > Yes, but in multiple iterations to get \t, \t\t, \t\t\t, ... > > > > > > > > Which is handled by this regex: 's/^\(\t*\)* /\1\t/' > > > > > > > > In this case, I'm using "*", which means "match zero or more of the > > > > preceding expression" - which in this case is \t. That regex is > > > > enclosed in \(...\) to group the result, which is then back > > > > referenced in the output expression by \1 (first group backref). > > > > > > > > Regexes are extremely and flexible once you've learnt how the > > > > multiple object matching rules work. > > > > > > I know. But I don't see how your regex would take the number of > > > four-space groups and inserted the same number of \t, > > > > I thought you were asking about having multiple tabs preceding > > the "4 space group". If you simply want to change all 4 space > > groups, it's 's/\( \)/\t/g': > > > > [snip] > > Thanks, but I know regular expressions, even if I usually don't get a > nontrivial expression on a first try. :-D > > Anyway, how about this? I pushed it into a new branch (style-nov-8th) > https://github.com/jtulak/xfsdump/tree/style-nov-8th > (git clone --single-branch -b style-nov-8th > https://github.com/jtulak/xfsdump.git) > > It is now in 16 patches, split usually one change at a time. Three of > them are over 500k in size, so I will need to cut them somehow into > more parts before sending them into the mailing list. Split them by dump/restore/inventory/common directories. > But I ended up > with a small script set that does it all, including the creation of > commits, so I don't have to deal with conflicts if I will need to > change anything. > > Btw, I wonder if these formatting scripts could be useful if I push > them somewhere publicly... About 2/3 are sed replacements, the last > third are gradually stricter configurations for Uncrustify > (http://uncrustify.sourceforge.net/, available in distro repos). The scripts used for the transfomation should be documented in the the commit messages. e.g: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfsprogs-dev.git/commit/?id=37b3b4d6c38aaf501dd7714d9670bff4ac282923 Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx