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Re: religious wars
- From: "Jason Alonso" <jbalonso at gmail dot com>
- To: "The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:28:09 -0400
- Subject: Re: religious wars
- References: <005301c7ac58$6a54cb70$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
- Reply-to: jalonso at media dot mit dot edu
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On 6/11/07, Dave Korn wrote:
<--snip-->
It does lead me to wonder, though, if there isn't a market for a cross
between CVS and GNU indent that transforms the code on check-out and check-in,
so that anyone who checks out a sandbox gets the files formatted in their own
favourite style, and can write code however they most prefer, and everyone
else sees it in /their/ own favourite style, and nobody even has to know or
care what the actual underlying format looks like at all.
I once collaborated on a small project where I used vim and my cohorts
used emacs (another religious war), and we had indentation nightmares,
especially with CVS. My "solution" was a 5am daily cron job that
automagically checked out a copy of the latest source tree,
auto-indented it, and committed it.
The result?
"The auto-indenter is about to start... Commit NOW!"
and...
"My code was hit by the auto-dementor."
Cheers,
Jason