Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 16:03:36 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Indentation styles Message-ID: <199606021403.QAA01837@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199606020834.KAA15734@allegro.lemis.de> from Greg Lehey at "Jun 2, 96 10:34:14 am"
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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. You'll most likely never get us to allow this again. The last set of cosmetical ``fixes'' of this type was the Great ``Remove trailing whitespace'' saga, and it has been considered a big mistake afterwards. It breaks all third-party software (and remember, many things of us _are_ third-party, since they've got bsd_44_lite vendor-branch tags). -- 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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