Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 15:49:24 +0100 From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Indentation styles Message-ID: <199606031449.PAA02874@cadair.elsevier.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199606021403.QAA01837@uriah.heep.sax.de> (message from J Wunsch on Sun, 2 Jun 1996 16:03:36 %2B0200 (MET DST))
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>>>>> "J" == J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> writes: J> As Greg Lehey wrote: >> That depends on how easy and reliable it is. I'd guess that >> reformatting the entire kernel sources with indent would take less >> than a minute. J> You'll most likely never get us to allow this again. J> The last set of cosmetical ``fixes'' of this type was the Great J> ``Remove trailing whitespace'' saga, and it has been considered a J> big mistake afterwards. It breaks all third-party software (and J> remember, many things of us _are_ third-party, since they've got J> bsd_44_lite vendor-branch tags). Wasn't this because they weren't on a separate vendor branch? If they had been the new release would have patched cleanly against the vendor branch and then merged into the main branch without any problems.home | help
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