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> From: Greg Reddin [mailto:gred...@gmail.com] > On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Rick Winscot <rick.wins...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If, by chance, developers need to diff between rev50 and rev200... all they > have to do is take rev50 and format it which should give them an > approximation of rev101. If there is any question - they can always do a > three-way compare of rev50 (re-formatted), rev101, and rev200. Having one > person do the re-formatting after the repository is in place... and committing > the re-formatting changes in _1_ commit is the key. > > It won't be by chance, at least not at first. It will most definitely be > necessary > on occasion until we get far enough away from the pre-formatted code to > not need to compare anymore - if ever. > > In practice though, I've done this on several occasions and I've never had a > serious problem with it. Sure, it's produced diffs that have contained a lot > of > "garbage" changes, but I've never had a huge issue with wandering through > them to find what I needed. > > If we really are too timid about making these kinds of changes then we'll > likely be too timid to do other refactorings as well. If code formatting is > the > right thing to do then we should just bite the bullet and do it I think. > > Greg
