On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 11:27:44AM +0200, Tels wrote: > If all patches are converted/normalized, this would not be nec. at all, or > could be done automatically, which way "we" prefer.
> Normalizing the whitespace (to whatever) before applying would prevent a > lot of raised questions from anyone trying to write a patch. The problem is then that we'd also need the existing perl source normalised before and after the patch, which would mean that we'd start of with a big patch to normalise the existing files. This would loose us almost all the change annotation, and current version control tools aren't good enough to show annotation ignoring whitespace changes. (or most usefully start and end of line whitespace changes only) Nicholas Clark
