I'm not sure about SmartSVN - I'm a command-line kinda guy. In fact... for an operation this large I would recommend _not_ using a GUI client for sake of speed and stability.
Diff? You'll have tens-of-thousands of changes... I wouldn't worry about running diff, since reformatting isn't going to change functionality - just position within the file. -- Rick Winscot On Friday, January 6, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > > > > On 1/6/12 11:10 AM, "Rick Winscot" <rick.wins...@gmail.com > (mailto:rick.wins...@gmail.com)> wrote: > > > If, by chance, developers need to diff between rev50 and rev200... all they > > have to do is take rev50 and format it which should give them an > > approximation > > of rev101. If there is any question - they can always do a three-way compare > > of rev50 (re-formatted), rev101, and rev200. Having one person do the > > re-formatting after the repository is in place... and committing the > > re-formatting changes in _1_ commit is the key. > > > > Am I missing something? > What steps would I use in SmartSVN on Mac to do this? I believe I'd have to > get the rev50 copied somewhere, run the formatting tool on it, and run diff > myself. > > When we did serious reformatting during the port from AS2 to AS3, it was a > real pain when we needed to diff across the reformatting rev. > > That said, I'm willing to live with it if everyone else really wants to have > a full reformatting pass. I just don't want the desire for consistency to > impede our ability to make progress in the actual code. > > I've never been a fan of highly detailed coding conventions. For example, I > could care less if you use tab or space. Any modern editor can configure > its tab width. I do care that a tab is four spaces though and want you to > set your editor up that way. > > -- > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Team > Adobe Systems, Inc. > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > >
