> > On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 23:26 +0200, Tsantilas Christos wrote: >> Alex Rousskov wrote: >> > >> > Changes in the current code are only bad for outstanding patches and >> > forgotten branches, right? If everybody applies the same formatting to >> > all their branches and HEAD, we should not have many conflicts, right? >> >> I don't know, possibly it is OK. >> Or just format the HEAD, merge HEAD to branches (this will take some >> hours but...) and then apply formating to the branch. After the first >> time all will be OK. > > with CVS you will be much better off formatting all branches > simultaneously, then merging.
I think that would cause clashes on any very old branches. They would need merging up before the format then formatting HEAD & branches and re-merging. Amos
