Re: [PATCH] Issue #1295

On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 12:11:51PM +1200, John Barstow wrote:
> Mark Grosberg wrote:
> > (it's kind of hard to change styles when I've been
> > using my style for the last 8-9 years or so).
>
> There's a little command line tool called Artistic Style
> http://astyle.sourceforge.net/ that's really useful for open source
> programming. It reindents and reformats your C/C++/Java source code;
> perfect when a project has a different style than you do.
> I usually use it twice; run it once to convert the original code to my
> preferred style (for readability), then after modifications run it again to
> convert back to the original style for diffs and patches.

Based on comments made by various Subversion committers, I don't think
they would like that very much :) Gratuitous formatting changes are
frowned upon.

e.g. just because the Subversion style guidelines say there should be no
tabs in the source code, doesn't mean you should submit a patch
converting all tabs to spaces in the whole source tree.

-- 
Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za>
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