Re: [Dri-devel] Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle fixes for drm_agpsupport

From: Larry McVoy
Date: Thu Aug 14 2003 - 15:21:10 EST


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.
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