Durfee, Bernard wrote:
> 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.
If you could format it you could do anything with it. And what would
happen if it breaks the file so you can't build anymore? Remember, you
would get _untested_ source code in the repository which is not a good idea.
> 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?
Reformatting the source code is something bigger than keyword expansion,
because keyword expansion is "safe". It won't break the file.
Rainer
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Received on Wed Jun 22 19:58:00 2005