David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Sep 27, 2008, at 14:11, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> 
>> Try using diff -b.  It filters out whitespace changes making it easier
>> to see
>> the significant changes.
> 
> I used `svn diff -x '-ub'. Attached.

You can set SVKDIFF='diff -bu' to do that all the time.  I've sometimes even
thrown in -w, -B and -E.


>> At the risk of starting a flamewar, can we reindent the whole thing at 4
>> characters?  The 2 char indent means we're constantly going to have to
>> reindent submissions.
> 
> +1 YES, PLEASE! This is the indentation I always use. Also, no tabs
> (there are lots in the source).

FWIW I ran perltidy over the source and the tests passed.  This is the
perltidy from Test::More which would be a good place to start.

http://test-more.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/.perltidyrc

Once the code is tidy one can play the "tidy with our own personal settings,
edit, tidy with project settings, commit" game if the project style is that
bothersome.


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