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: Re: whitespace-only changes Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 23:33:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83imddcv4m.fsf@gnu.org> <878se9wigu.fsf@gnus.org> <878se9mkqa.fsf@randomsample> 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="8788"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Engster Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 21 05:34:50 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 1k8xpK-0002BK-JQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2020 05:34:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51422 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k8xpJ-0001ed-KI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 23:34:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35844) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k8xoK-0000hb-NT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 23:33:48 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52829) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k8xoJ-0004I9-Vp; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 23:33:47 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1k8xoE-000523-ON; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 23:33:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <878se9mkqa.fsf@randomsample> (message from David Engster on Thu, 20 Aug 2020 16:54:05 +0200) 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:254068 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. ]]] 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. -- 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)