Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Aug 2003 15:21:04 -0500 | From | Eli Carter <> | Subject | Re: [Dri-devel] Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle fixes for drm_agpsupport |
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Larry McVoy wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 11:43:40AM -0700, Philip Brown wrote: > >>On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 07:47:11AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: >> >>>... >>>Indeed I have. And there is a reason that we have a policy at BitMover >>>where "formatting changes" are prohibited and we make people redo their >>>changesets until they get them right. >>> >>>In other words, you are welcome to write a revision control system >>>which can look through the formatting changes and give you the semantic >>>knowledge that you want. We'd love to see how it is done and then do >>>it in BitKeeper :) >> >>You should allow for ... > > > Didn't you mean "in the SCM system I'm writing, I allow for ..."? > > Besides, your point is content specific. People check things other than > C code into BK.
I assume you can have content-specific validators run before a commit? (CVS can.) A validator could see that it was formatting only and mark it in someway perhaps? But we've wandered _way_ OT at this point, and it's well past the point of diminishing returns...
Eli --------------------. "If it ain't broke now, Eli Carter \ it will be soon." -- crypto-gram eli.carter(a)inet.com `-------------------------------------------------
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