Orton, Yves wrote:
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.
I'm wondering why cant "fix" the patches. IE, all of the changed or added
lines could at least have trailing whitespace removed and leading whitespace
appropriately changed.
Yves
I think he meant something like:
perl -pi.bak -e 's/^\+(.*)\s+$/$1/' patch-b4-application
be done automatically to each patch *before* it was applied.
That would prevent things from getting worse anyway.
I think adjustment to patchfiles are fine, as long as no lines are added
removed
(that will corrupt appication iirc)
