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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Gerrit patches with trailing whitespace

From: Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:38:07 +0200
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wireshark-dev-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Huus
> Sent: den 25 augusti 2014 19:32
> To: Developer support list for Wireshark
> Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Gerrit patches with trailing whitespace
> 
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Graham Bloice
> <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 25 August 2014 18:17, Graham Bloice <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 25 August 2014 18:11, Juan Jose Martin Carrascosa <juanjo@xxxxxxx>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I think that you are talking about my just committed changes. I
> just did
> >>> it and I just checked in the website that it has the whitespaces...
> >>>
> >>> As Evan said, I don't have it installed by default and I wasn't
> really
> >>> aware of the process (even reading the doc a couple of times). I am
> really
> >>> sorry.
> >>>
> >>> I will take a look at how to "stop" my changes from being reviewed
> and
> >>> fix it.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks!
> >>> Juanjo
> >>
> >>
> >> It's just a trivial thing to have to go around the submission loop
> once
> >> again.  Annoying for both the submitter and the reviewer, as we all
> know
> >> trailing white space is a heinous crime :-)
> >>
> >> Did git-review install the hook for me, I can't think where else it
> came
> >> from?
> >>
> >
> > Should we add some info then to the Dev Guide as to where to get the
> hook,
> 
> It's already in
> http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/SubmittingPatches#Setup
> 
> We keep running into this problem - should the wiki page and the dev
> guide be consolidated?
> 
> > and also run a server-side hook to reject the push?
> 
> +1 if we can figure out how to return a nice error message explanation
> and not just "Your change was rejected by the remote server."

Any output from the hook to stdout (and stderr) will be sent back to 
the client side and displayed to the user so that should be trivial.

> > --
> > Graham Bloice

//Peter