From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: whitespace-only changes
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 23:33:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1k8xoE-000523-ON@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878se9mkqa.fsf@randomsample> (message from David Engster on Thu, 20 Aug 2020 16:54:05 +0200)
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If git itself doesn't have all the facilities for ignoring trivial
commits that we would want, we can add those facilities in various ways,
with patches to git or scripts. We can offer the patches upstream.
It is useful for humans to make the commit log say "whitespace change."
But scripts can detect a trivial change by looking at the actual diff.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-21 3:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
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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