On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 04:32:50PM +0200, Markus Schaber wrote: > Hi, Konstantin, > > A good policy is to educate the developers to commit whitespace-only > > changes in a separate commit. > > I know that. And I'm searching for a tool allowing me to do just that. > > Especially when you make a self-contained change (e. G. pure addition of > new methods or a new class, not touching any existing code pathes) to a > large "legacy" code file, and accidentally hit "Reformat code" in > ignorance of the fact that this file does not yet conform to the style > guide, you're busted.
So why doesn't the IDE have an undo button that restores the previous format? I don't think this warrants introducing a new feature in the version control system. Rather, the IDE should be fixed.
