Avi Kivity <a...@redhat.com> writes: > On 08/22/2010 07:40 PM, Jes Sorensen wrote: >> I totally agree with Markus >> that it seems like wasted effort to come up with new tools and having to >> maintain them when there are good ones out there like the ones from the >> Linux kernel. >> > > scripts/Lindent is just a wrapper around indent(1). We don't need to > come up with new tools, just come up with the right switches to > indent(1).
How can indent help effectively with policing the formatting of new code, in the form of patches, without touching the old code?