From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: whitespace-only changes Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 23:06:55 -0400 Message-ID: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29205"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: eliz@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 20 05:07:32 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1k8avL-0007Ts-L3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 05:07:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33718 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k8avK-0005fE-Gw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2020 23:07:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48158) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k8aur-0005ET-6G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2020 23:07:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33822) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k8auq-0001GK-U6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2020 23:07:00 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1k8aul-0001mr-Mg; Wed, 19 Aug 2020 23:06:55 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:254038 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] 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? -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)