[darcs-users] Re: Language aware darcs

[Justus Pendleton]

Michael Conrad wrote:
> Suppose I have an automatic code formatter, and I run it after every checkout.
> I then no longer care about whitespace.  In fact, it would be advantageous
> in this situation if darcs didn't record any data at all about whitespace or
> line numbers, and instead only managed the tree of data generated by a parser.

I believe this is how Monticello[1], a version control system for 
Squeak, works.  Of course, such things are easier in smalltalk 
environments because you have relatively simple access to the code as 
the compiler sees it.  I also remember that early discussions of what is 
now called Stellation[2] talked about finer granularity of version 
control, don't know if the project is dead or not.  (Sorta looks like it 
is.)

[1]: http://www.wiresong.ca/Monticello/
[2]: http://www.eclipse.org/stellation/