[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main/libmpcodecs vd_xvid4.c,1.2,1.3

[marco gaddoni]

Reimar Döffinger wrote:

>  
> Not-so hypothetical case: you have a file that doesn't work but you 
> know it worked somewhen. So you go through the revision to find the 
> patch that broke it.
> Now try to guess how hard it is to find the thing that caused it to 
> break when the patch consists of hundreds of changed lines but most of 
> them are only cosmetics. You would have to check each of those whether 
> they changed something or not.


Cosmetic only patches are easy to verify:
    cmp old.o new.o ;
Some code  in  mplayer is really unreadable;
if you cant read the code you can't find the
bugs or improve ....

ciao, marco