On 15 Apr 2009, at 08:57, Dan Pascu wrote:
I don't think a VCS is the place to enforce formatting rules. The VCS
should not care what is in the file, only how it has changed. Also
there
are languages where spacing matters, so ignoring whitespace changes in
the VCS is wrong. And last but not least, your whitespace rules do not
apply to everyone else.
Sorry for the late reply, I forgot I was still tracking this thread.
I was not proposing that darcs should ignore whitespace, just that
intra-line whitespace changes could possibly be merged with changes to
non-whitespace characters.
Also, just to be clear, never did I have the intention of enforcing
whitespace rules through the VCS, just tracking the whitespace changes
more explicitly.
I knew that it would probably be a complex issue that may only be
applicable to some cases, so I was mainly interested to know what
people with an understanding of patch theory thought of the idea.
Ashley
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