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From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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> >> A great way to enlarge 200000-line diffs between NetBSD and FreeBSD for code
> >> that isn't really different :-(.
> >
> >This means tracking *their* pedantic KNF style commits as well, or do 
> >you bitch at them about that?
> 
> If the style is consistent, then all reformatting to it should give the
> same result.

This is not an answer to the question.

You are suggesting that we should apply the "golden formatting" rule to 
minimise differences between our codebase and NetBSD's.  However they 
are mercilessly changing code style to conform to their preferred 
style.  

To achieve your stated goal, keeping our code the same is not adequate; 
instead we must copy their formatting changes.  I am not entirely 
convinced that this is a worthwhile exercise - I'd like to think we 
have a life of our own, and certainly *our* developer community has 
some fairly different ideas about how things should look.

mike