Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 01:31:31 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The 3.4-STABLE sources contain 152225 trailing whitespaces :-) Message-ID: <20000119013131.A12781@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000118141721.019a1c80@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 02:18:06PM -0700 References: <4.2.2.20000117133712.01a01910@localhost> <20000117212309.A6625@internal> <4.2.2.20000117133712.01a01910@localhost> <20000118004038.B4216@keltia.freenix.fr> <4.2.2.20000118141721.019a1c80@localhost>
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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. 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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