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Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com> writes:

>  (This means that, within such source-control, there can be many
> "false positives" when you're looking at a change-log... and even if
> you have the proper revision loaded, finding the actual alteration
> that was supposed to be logged might be difficult because so many
> non-semantic changes interfere with getting a picture of the actual
> semantic changes. [ex: looking at a diff when someone's editor
> helpfully changed tabs/spaces and they committed some buggy code.])

I had to refuse an offer to collaborate on the Ada 95 Booch Components
because the person insisted on editing using an editor (Grasp?) which
didn't respect the original layout.

Mind, someone who insisted on using an editor that did that might not
have been a very good collaborator anyway.