From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 19 22:16: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CABDD15366 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 22:16:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA25311; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 01:15:47 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200001200615.BAA25311@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000119013131.A12781@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 01:15:47 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Ollivier Robert Subject: Re: The 3.4-STABLE sources contain 152225 trailing whitespaces : Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 19-Jan-00 Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Brett Glass: >> That's probably because it was done all at once. What if source were ran >> through a formatter that removed tabs and trailing white spaces during the >> commit process? > > Diff obfuscation is the major problem here and would make "cvs diff" "cvs > rdiff" unusable because you have to sort which deltas are for whitespace > removal and the others. cvs diff -b? > You don't want that. > -- > Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- > roberto@keltia.freenix.fr > FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 4.0-CURRENT #77: Thu Dec 30 12:49:51 CET 1999 -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message