On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 11:43:40AM -0700, Philip Brown wrote:
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 07:47:11AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
... Indeed I have. And there is a reason that we have a policy at BitMover where "formatting changes" are prohibited and we make people redo their changesets until they get them right.
In other words, you are welcome to write a revision control system which can look through the formatting changes and give you the semantic knowledge that you want. We'd love to see how it is done and then do it in BitKeeper :)
You should allow for ...
Didn't you mean "in the SCM system I'm writing, I allow for ..."?
Besides, your point is content specific. People check things other than C code into BK.
I assume you can have content-specific validators run before a commit? (CVS can.) A validator could see that it was formatting only and mark it in someway perhaps?
But we've wandered _way_ OT at this point, and it's well past the point of diminishing returns...
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