Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 19:24:59 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Indentation styles Message-ID: <199606031724.TAA19354@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199606031449.PAA02874@cadair.elsevier.co.uk> from Paul Richards at "Jun 3, 96 03:49:24 pm"
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As Paul Richards wrote: > 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. Well, they are no ``outside source'' patches, but internally maintained. Thus, they don't really belong into a vendor branch. Anyway, CVS is a nice tool, but everything with vendor-branching seems to be messy. Ask Peter Wemm for more detailed stories... The outcome of the Greate Whitespace Saga was ``Never again''. It was a rather useless operation that costed many hours of conflict resolution later. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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