From: Philip B. <ph...@bo...> - 2003-08-14 18:58:51
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On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 07:47:11AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > ... > Indeed I have. And there is a reason that we have a policy at BitMover > where "formatting changes" are prohibited and we make people redo their > changesets until they get them right. > > In other words, you are welcome to write a revision control system > which can look through the formatting changes and give you the semantic > knowledge that you want. We'd love to see how it is done and then do > it in BitKeeper :) You should allow for changes that are "formatting change only", with no actual code structural change. You could pass the results through stage 1 of gcc, and only allow it if the parsing tree is identical. I was originally going to suggest just passing it through "indent", but that would not come out right, if someone added braces to clarify a one-line conditional. |