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Why not put all this into a pre-commit filter in CVS and be done with it? We'd never be bothered with it again as it would never be committed again.<BR>
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On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 15:11 -0500, Misha Brukman wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Dear LLVMers,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">If you live on the bleeding edge (i.e. CVS version), please read!</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 12:12:54PM +0200, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Do you really want external patches for this ? A simple Perl script</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> that runs on all *.h and *.cpp files, and a local commit from your</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> side would be much simpler. </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I'm in the process of doing just this as we speak. What this means:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">please hold off updating in the mean time, unless you want to rebuild</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">your codebase several times, as I am about to touch a *lot* of files.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I will send a message to the list when I'm done, so you can get all the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">changes (and hopefully, few conflicts)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> The testsuite should also be enhanced to daily report files with</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> trailing whitespace. </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Good idea, I'll add that to my todo list.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Please note that this not purely academic - trailing whitespace are a</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> horror for anyone maintaining external patches against a CVS tree.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I was not aware that this is such a big problem, so thanks for point</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">this out. It'll be fixed in a short while.</FONT>
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