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From: Stephen Leake <Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java
Date: 1999/01/21
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Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: 1999-01-21T00:00:00+00:00
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Andi Kleen <ak-uu@muc.de> writes:

> In article <m3ww2g4kvs.fsf@mheaney.ni.net>,
> Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org> writes:
> > All it does is turn this:
> 
> > procedure Push 
> >  (Item : in Item_Type;
> >   On : in out Stack_Type);
> 
> > into this:
> 
> > procedure Push
> >   (Item : in     Item_Type;
> >    On   : in out Stack_Type);
> 
> > What's the problem?
> 
> It makes reading cvs diff file (or your favourite version control system's
> equivalent) output hell.
<snip>
> 
> For example in a lot of projects I know it is common to send back patches 
> to the submitters when they contain formatting changes, unless they're
> explicitely marked as formatting patch and only contain them. Separating
> the formatting noise and the useful stuff is just too much work. 

A good diff program can be told to ignore whitespace differences. And
again, emacs comes to the resue with ediff - by far the best
file-difference viewer I've ever seen.

On the other hand, I tend to agree that formatting should be done the
first time, and if a formatting error gets into checked-in source, it
shouldn't be "fixed" unless there is some other reason to edit nearby lines.

-- Stephe