This thread has a lot in common to the one I created asking about formating
code.
Since Karl got a bit irritated when itīs said to be
kfogel@collab.ne
t Para: "Durfee, Bernard" <Bernard.Durfee@suny.edu>
Enviado Por: cc: users@subversion.tigris.org
kfogel@newton.ch Assunto: Re: Post Commit Code Formatting
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22/06/2005 16:05
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kfogel
"Durfee, Bernard" <Bernard.Durfee@suny.edu> writes:
> I've seen this topic come and go over the years in CVS and now in
> Subversion. It amazes me the amount of resistance put forth by the
> maintainers of both of these projects. It's just a feature. A useful
> feature that can be used or ignored. Providing a simple hook somewhere
> in the commit path to run a script to format the incoming file before
> the commit and to transmit the changes back to the client.
The resistance is due to the difficulty of implementing it. I don't
know why you think it's "simple". I notice you haven't submitted a
patch for it, or even a design proposal that addresses all the
technical issues.
You can continue to be "amazed" by the resistance, or you can try to
solve the problem yourself, and see how simple it is or isn't.
> Whether or not automatic formatting of committed files is appropriate is
> a purely philosophical debate. In my mind it is simply an extension of
> the already convenient RCS keyword expansion provided by both CVS and
> Subversion. Imagine, if you will, a world in which RCS keyword expansion
> didn't exist. Would you ask developers to make sure to update the
> revision number and commit time in each file before they committed it?
> Why force them to remember to run the code through a formatter before
> they commit it?
>
> Please CVS and Subversion, give the world a way to easily and
> appropriately integrate code formatters.
Our opposition to the feature is not on philosophical grounds, it's on
the technical grounds that not worth the trouble to implement. If you
say that's wrong, then you're saying it *is* worth the trouble to
implement. So, implement it!
This is how things get done around here.
Best,
-Karl
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