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Re: WTF?

From: Richard Guenther <rguenther at suse dot de>
To: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, hongjiu dot lu at intel dot com
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:49:39 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Re: WTF?
References: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0911251737500.17161@zhemvz.fhfr.qr> <alpine.LNX.2.00.0911251739340.17161@zhemvz.fhfr.qr> <10911251651.AA00241@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Richard Kenner wrote:

> > Can someone please remove this revision from the subversion database
> > on the server and fix things up?  If that's not possible at least
> > the revision should be reverted.
> 
> Why the latter?  I agree with the problems this can cause, but if they
> can't be fixed by removing it from the database, why revert it?  All things
> being equal, trailing blanks in fact aren't a good idea.

Because it makes branch merging a nightmare and all patches people
keep are hosed and won't apply anymore.

And because it wasn't approved and earlier suggestions were shot down
quickly.

Richard.

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