On 31 August 2012 11:03, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote: > It does and we do. > > However we have several sections of the codebase that have been formatted by > hand. As such when you blindly do "Alt-Shift-F" you introduce > a lot of noise into your patch.
In which case we should tell the auto formatter not to modify those sections (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1820908/how-to-turn-off-the-eclipse-code-formatter-for-certain-sections-of-java-code) > > Why does this matter? It basically screws anyone who is trying to apply the > patch across different branches / releases. > > My guess is that by doing the whitespace change is a separate patch; Justin > would be able to "cherry-pick" just the change with the fix across to a > different release. I understand why this is bad - I just thought we sorted the issue some years ago. Ian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ GeoTools-Devel mailing list GeoTools-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
