[darcs-users] Fwd: Towards a conflict-free revision control system.

[Dan Pascu]

On Tuesday 20 January 2009, Kari Hoijarvi wrote:
> Dan Pascu wrote:
> > On Friday 16 January 2009, Kari Hoijarvi wrote:
> >> For example whitespace formatting patches would simply go away.
> >
> > Are you suggesting here to deliberately ignore explicit indentation
> > changes made by the user?
>
> Yes, in the sense that microsoft intentional programming environment
> did it'
>
> Program is stored as a tree, and the IDE pretty prints it, the way you
> choose to. It can also do a lot more, like display constant bitmap
> files as thumbnails, translated strings in place, etc.
>
> So there are no files either. Source code order goes away: if it does
> not matter in which order program elements are introduced, the IDE can
> sort them as you wish.

You know, there are languages where the indentation level is relevant and 
changing it has a meaning that cannot be ignored.

-- 
Dan