Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language

[Tassilo Horn]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

>> OTOH, they reduce the helpfulness version control offers to new and
>> old developers.  I.e., it's good when "git blame" shows you the last
>> changes which actually changed the code, and switching "char const *"
>> to "const char *" or vice versa are no real changes.
>
> On the other hand, the blame for declarations is mostly less
> interesting than the blame for the actual use of such variables, so
> the attribution damage is not all that important in this case.

On yet another hand, the declaration might be the right-hand side of an
assignment with an extremely complex left-hand side.

>> In the same vein, it's of course good to have one consistent
>> indentation style,
>
> git blame -w
>
> helps skipping across spacing changes.

Yes, I know.  But I'm assuming the default values of
`vc-*-annotate-switches' / `magit-blame-arguments'.  Oh, for the latter
"-w" is actually the default.

Bye,
Tassilo