amunix

I was taking a cvs diff today between two versions of a java file. To my horror, I found out that most of the changes were in the formatting -- adding a space, changing a space to a tab or vice-versa. The real code change was tiny as compared to the white-space changes. It irks me when programmers ignore white-spaces, and add or delete them at will.

As a rule of thumb, cvs diffs' must contain only the code changes, and not the white-space changes. Very few programmers understand this, even experienced ones. :-|