RFC: plan for starting the Qt5/KF5 port

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 27 February 2015 at 19:03, Thorsten Zachmann <t.zachmann at zagge.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>>
>> I say it should be done now, and be done to 2.9 too
>>
>> And I almost don't think maintainers should be able to say no. The long term
>> goal of having a clean codebase is more important than short term issue
>> with git blame (have a separate permanent checkout before this revision
>> where you can run git blame)
>>
>> After all maintainers and developers come and go. It's important all of our
>> codebase is as easy and consistent to look at as possible - and yeah i know
>> that is an argument for keeping easy history too - sigh
>
> There is also the option -w to git blame that ignores whitespace changes.
> Which should be the majority of changes showing a problem.
>

Hmm, yes and maybe it would be useful as default in .gitconfig.
I am using -w with git diff too (and reviewboard has visible option for it).

One thing, it wouldn't ignore \n, eg.:

- foo() {
+ foo()
+ {

But we cannot have everything.

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