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[Monotone-devel] Re: Hook for source code beautifier?


From: Bruce Stephens
Subject: [Monotone-devel] Re: Hook for source code beautifier?
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:03:24 +0000
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Thomas Keller <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

> Be aware that such an implementation would create new revisions which
> would form new heads (even if the beautifier doesn't change anything but
> whitespaces, because this would change the manifest and the revision
> therfor). If you then try to merge those, you probably would get a lot
> of conflicts. One could work around that by disapproving the original
> revision, but this only works well if there are no children of the
> revision in question yet.

I guess you'd commit the reformatted revision as a child of the
original, so it wouldn't create an extra head (often, anyway).
disapproving seems a bit evil.  Maybe just have people only trust
branch certs issued by the reformatter (or from themselves)---then the
original would just not be visible, most of the time?

[...]





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