From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Reformat all of src/ Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 05:41:18 +0200 Message-ID: <83eg0rv1up.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87h95olvg0.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1482982934 28151 195.159.176.226 (29 Dec 2016 03:42:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 03:42:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, czipperz@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 29 04:42:10 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cMRbS-0006X6-VM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2016 04:42:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33674 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cMRbX-0008Dx-Pj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Dec 2016 22:42:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32849) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cMRax-0008Ds-QC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Dec 2016 22:41:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cMRau-0002BG-OQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Dec 2016 22:41:35 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49014) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cMRau-0002BC-Lb; Wed, 28 Dec 2016 22:41:32 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4635 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cMRam-0007Kn-EB; Wed, 28 Dec 2016 22:41:24 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Wed, 28 Dec 2016 20:36:40 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:210944 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 20:36:40 -0500 > Cc: czipperz@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > One can argue about whether it was worth time to make the changes, but > since that has been done already, why not put it in? > > A single change which affects only whitespace > won't cause any confusion no matter how many places that whitespace > is changed. It makes digging into code history harder, especially when files are also renamed later. We arrived at the current convention of not doing such changes unless real code changes are also committed based on our practice, so I don't think we should reverse that decision.