Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] CODING_STYLE amendments

[Markus Armbruster]

Avi Kivity <address@hidden> writes:

>  On 08/22/2010 07:40 PM, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> I totally agree with Markus
>> that it seems like wasted effort to come up with new tools and having to
>> maintain them when there are good ones out there like the ones from the
>> Linux kernel.
>>
>
> scripts/Lindent is just a wrapper around indent(1).  We don't need to
> come up with new tools, just come up with the right switches to
> indent(1).

How can indent help effectively with policing the formatting of new
code, in the form of patches, without touching the old code?