On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:06:54 +0200, Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
You do need a common code beautifier so that you don't get false
deltas on cvs checkin. Eclipse and IntelliJ can be made to look
roughly the same, but not identical. What is needed is a beautifier
plugin that works on all the major IDES and hooks itself up to
automatically beautify before checkin.
What kind of nonsense is that? It's not as if the editor would reindent
all the code upon loading a file -- if it does, throw it away faster
than it starts up.
Let's say programmer A checks out the code and does some extensive
work with in IntelliJ. Almost certainly he will hit Ctrl-Alt-R
several times to make the code comprehensible. It will beautify to
IntelliJ specs.
Then he checks it in. Programmer B checks it out in Eclipse and does
a simple modification. Hits the beautify button, which will beautify
to Eclipse standards -- potentially changing every line in the
program, changed or not. He then checks it in.
Then programmer A checks it out again. And tries to figure out what
Programmer B changed. CVS tells him every line in the program had a
delta.
If they both used a COMMON beautifier before checkin, CVS would report
only REAL changes to code, not ones artifacts of differing styles of
beautification.