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* whitespace-only changes
@ 2020-08-20  3:06 Richard Stallman
  2020-08-20  8:04 ` Mattias Engdegård
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From: Richard Stallman @ 2020-08-20  3:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: eliz; +Cc: emacs-devel

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Larsi wrote:

  > Thanks for the patch, but we don't normally apply whitespace-only fixes,
  > because that makes it harder to investigate, later (with git blame and
  > friends), what previous code changes did.

I am sure he knows what he's talking about, but it is unfortunate that
we cannot fix bad indentation.  Can't we correct this problem somehow?

For instance, label whitespace changes clearly in the commit log, and
change some tools to ignore them?

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Dr Richard Stallman
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2020-08-20  3:06 whitespace-only changes Richard Stallman
2020-08-20  8:04 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-08-20 13:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-20 13:32   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-20 14:54     ` David Engster
2020-08-21  3:33       ` Richard Stallman
2020-08-21  8:55         ` Sergey Organov
2020-08-23  4:42           ` Richard Stallman
2020-08-20 20:50 ` Daniel Martín
2020-08-20 20:54   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-20 21:07     ` Daniel Martín
2020-08-21 13:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-22  3:51   ` Richard Stallman

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