Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: CODING_STYLE (was Re: [PATCHv2] qemu: target library, use it in msix)

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 01.10.2009 10:58, schrieb Michael S. Tsirkin:
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 10:43:16AM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>> Am 01.10.2009 08:17, schrieb Michael S. Tsirkin:
>>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 04:01:00PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>>> Blue Swirl wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Avi Kivity <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>   
>>>>>> On 09/30/2009 03:51 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>> So ... Linux kernel style wins? What do others think?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>       
>>>>>> Any change is going to cause a large amount of pain if implemented.
>>>>>>     
>>>>>
>>>>> True, but with 'indent' support the pain would be brief.
>>>>>   
>>>>
>>>> It's equivalent to losing a massive amount of revision history which  
>>>> hurts debugging.
>>>
>>> It is? Why is it? git bisect still works. what else do you use
>>> for debugging that gets broken?
>>
>> git blame.
>>
>> Kevin
> 
> I think git blame has "-w" flag to ignore whitespace changes.

Are we only talking about changing the indentation?  Switching from 4
spaces to tabs of 8 characters also means additional line breaks and so
on (or does it handle these, too?). And I thought I read in this thread
about braces, typedefs and probably some more things. Can -w really
handle all of them?

Kevin