sebb> But not for all the people who may wish to use our code.

There's IDEA Community edition that is available for all the people for
free.
It comes with Git/SVN support, so everybody can browse the code.

sebb>I meant see if you can easily find out when a particular line of code
was added in a source file that has been subject to lots of formatting
changes.
sebb>I'm sure there are lots of examples.


Well, apache/jmeter git mirror shows the history across reformats just fine.

For instance:
ReportGeneratorConfiguration was added on 7 Dec 2015 by Philippe, and then
reformatted on 10 Dec 2015 by Felix (see
https://github.com/apache/jmeter/commit/aece733b07e41017b60a9e218c41c264ca683d2d
 )
IDEA shows proper annotations as if reformat was never performed.

So what? I did check a couple of reformat examples, and the outcome is that
formatting creates no overhead on history browsing.


Vladimir

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