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Re: Lilypond source code indenter and formatter


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Lilypond source code indenter and formatter
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:49:31 +0200
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Colin Hall <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 12:01:21PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Colin Hall <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 06:26:36AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>> >> Colin Hall <address@hidden> writes:
>> >> 
>> >> > Exactly. My intended application is to use it as part of a git
>> >> > collaboration workflow that Urs, Janek, Susan(?) and I are working on.
>> >> 
>> >> It is not really helpful for diffs if you get completely different
>> >> indentation for a while file because of having to add a delimiter pair
>> >> somewhere.
>> >
>> > Please describe a chain of events leading to that scenario.
>> 
>> { 50 lines }  =>  << { 50 lines } { mixture of s and dynamics } >>
>
> Thanks, now I can see what you were thinking of.
>
> What is your point?

That automatically enforced indentation is not necessarily the best
choice for colloboration.  You don't have the choice to make indentation
compromises while a file is actively being worked on.  Reverts and
merges often fail.

-- 
David Kastrup



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