On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Roy Stogner wrote:

> This hurts the usefulness of "svn blame".  Whoever commits the first
> massive set of astyle changes suddenly looks responsible for a whole
> lot of code where he merely touched whitespace.
>
> This hurts the usefulness of "svn diff -r A:B" where A is any revision
> number before the whitespace change and B is any revision number
> after.

To me, this seems like a severe drawback, so I would vote against 
astyle (if you are interested in my opinion...).

Actually, I do not see any essential benefit from gettig rid of 
spurious whitespace, with the one possible exception of TAB 
characters, because those tend to expand to a different number of 
spaces in some editors, in particular editors on bizarre operating 
systems like MS Windows.

Best Regards,

Tim

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