[Hawkular-dev] Line length rule to be removed from Checkstyle

Heiko W.Rupp hrupp at redhat.com
Fri Mar 18 12:10:58 EDT 2016


On 18 Mar 2016, at 15:52, Thomas Segismont wrote:

> Le 18/03/2016 15:48, Heiko W.Rupp a écrit :
>> On 18 Mar 2016, at 15:26, Stefan Negrea wrote:
>>
>>> IDEs. The classic example is having a line with 120 characters of Java
>>> code, the developer decides to test something by commenting out this
>>> line; the commenting takes 3 extra characters for a total of 123
>>> characters. The IDE does not re-format to length and now there is a
>>> build error.
>>
>> Exactly - that was my pain point over the year
>
> Not sure about Eclipse but Intellij has an option to reformat comments

Which I don't want when just commenting out one bad line
when trying things.

This whole checkstyle / license / ... machinery is great for the moment
just before the changes are going out your computer to co-workers.
Before you should be able to roundtrip as fast as possible


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