Re: Source formatting issues while maintaining code

Hi,

Let me add some more points here:

>>meaningful "blame" information,
Exactly this is the main reason we want to maintain the code formatting

>> that has a setting to ignore whitespace-only changes.
I have tried using the Eclipse Compare/Patch setting of ignore white spaces
but when it encounters a auto formatted file it shows numerous changes and
the ignore whitespace setting doesn't seem to work in that case.

But Eclipse compare option is so easy that it will always be my
first preference to use rather than a external CVS diff tool which is
intelligent, and even I don't know of such a tool

Tushar Joshi
http://www.tusharvjoshi.com


On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Charles Miller <[email protected]>wrote:

>   On 23/11/2008, at 10:12 AM, Tushar Joshi wrote:
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> > Have any one implemented any creative method to solve this problem?
>
> If it's important to you, you could just bite the bullet, run the
> entire source tree through an auto-formatter with the same settings as
> your IDE, then re-check it in. You'll make it a lot harder to get
> meaningful "blame" information, but at least the code will be
> consistently formatted from then on.
>
> Alternatively, you could get a better diff program, preferably one
> that has a setting to ignore whitespace-only changes.
>
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