"Trent W. Buck" <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 09:27:03AM +0000, Eric Kow wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 11:46:08 +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: >> > When making sweeping changes like this, I've decided a compromise is to >> > record changes on a per-directory basis rather than per-file (painful >> > log) or per-repo (painful commutation). >> >> I'm starting to come around to the position that /maybe/ a big bang >> trailing whitespace change (using the per directory compromise) >> would be the right thing to do (after the 2009-01-15 release!). > > +1 > > If it's going to be done at all, it should happen just before or just > after a release, since those are milestones anyway.
I'd say just before. This way, the 2.2 tag depends on that patch, and we can have the rule of thumb that a released tag is cleanish as a point to branch-off. (It's nicer to branchers if there are clear points where they know they can diverge from, and it's clearer if those are the release tags.) Florent _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
