On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:40:22AM +0100, Duncan Booth wrote: > IMHO, changing whitespace retrospectively in a version control system is a > bad idea.
In my experience Duncan's assertion is absolutely true, and all the more so in a project that maintains a large body of pending patches, as Python does. Spurious whitespaces changes in the repo will generate patch rejections that will drive both maintainers (as they check in a patch) and submitters (as they try to refresh patches against head) mad. I'm very much interested in VC systems *not* driving developers mad! Dustin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
