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Re: gnulib warnings when compiling Faddeeva.cc


From: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
Subject: Re: gnulib warnings when compiling Faddeeva.cc
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:22:04 -0500

On 15 December 2012 13:18, Steven G. Johnson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>>
>> Well, this is why we have a DVCS, right? We can easily maintain two
>> branches of this file. Probably not worth the effort for such minor
>> cosmetic differences, though.
>
>
> DCVS doesn't help with something like this -- if you want to maintain two
> versions of a file that differ in their indentation etcetera, then you have
> to make all changes to both versions manually, because diff and patch won't
> work.

hg doesn't actually use diff(1) and patch(1). And a DVCS does help
with this. You make the change once in one branch, you never have to
make it again in the other branch. You just merge it to the other
branch and the DVCS history makes it in the corresponding locations.

>> Can we at least get rid of the tabs?
>
> Sure.

Neat, thanks.

- Jordi G. H.


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