uncrustify

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> 
> >> Running  uncrustify against NTPsec is good idea, but it needs to
> >> be a flag day, because it will be a huge patch. 
> 
> > ...pretty much a 'fork' from which there is no recovery...
> 
> Is that a serious problem?  If so, why?
> 
> It would mean that I couldn't (usefully) diff versions of a file that crossed 
> the flag day, but I don't think I do that very often.  I'm more likely to let 
> git diff version X and X-1 and if we trust uncrustify I won't be doing that 
> for X being the flag day.

I concur with Hal's doubt that this is a serious problem.  I don't find myself
doing diffs with very old versions often.  If I did, diff -b (ignoring
whitespace) would probably mitigate a lot of them.

I've installed uncrustify.  I'll do some experoments.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>