On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Miller Puckette wrote:
Well, no, not pointless, because diffs should still work, as long as they ignore white space. The trouble I was having was that patches to the main branch were making wierd indentation (I think because different people use different tabspace indentations). So I think a spaces-only main branch is easier to "patch" to.
If the diff command directly supports that feature of ignoring leading whitespace then there's no point in making the change; but if instead you need special preprocessing scripts that are only integrated into CVS and not the regular diff then you are right.
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