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Subject: Re: Indentation styles
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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.