comparing sources is a separate workflow step. GitHub and git support
custom diff filters that are applied, not to edit the source but to make
the diff more meaningful.
Rather than talking about modifying the source and the work of everyone to
maintain some conventions like NSNL, make a git diff filter that produces
NSNL for those who want that when examining diffs.
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On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 8:03 AM Ted Lemon <mel...@fugue.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2025, at 6:13 AM, Michael Richardson wrote:
>
> The question remains, when the RPC edits text, whether XML or kramdown,
> ought they do a do-nothing pass where they change to NSNL.
> Assume that there is a tool to do this.
> If not, ought they at least attempt NSNL for any changes that *they* make.
> {I'd really like that part}
>
>
> Good god no. Why would you gratuitously make a change that would affect
> all subsequent diffs? Someone did this to the mDNSResponder sources back in
> ~2005 and now you can't do git blame on anything prior to that. Please, no
> gratuitous formatting changes to the source code.
>
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