On 4/5/08, Steve Haflich <smh at franz.com> wrote:
> Fortunately, most of the diff-based tools used by source management
> systems have various options to suppress whitespace difference, so
> developers can get the best of both worlds. For example
>
> cvs diff -bc ...
>
> makes the indenting problem pretty much go away.
The diffs generated automatically by CVS show whitespace changes.
cvs annotate doesn't have an option to ignore whitespace.
Those are both important means of tracking revision history,
which are goofed up by reformatting.
FWIW
Robert Dodier