On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 10:06 AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé 
<berra...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 10:46:14AM +0200, Marc Hartmayer wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 09:10 AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé 
>> <berra...@redhat.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 10:03:35AM +0200, Marc Hartmayer wrote:
>> >> On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 02:23 PM -0500, Jonathon Jongsma 
>> >> <jjong...@redhat.com> wrote:
>> >> > On 4/19/24 9:49 AM, Marc Hartmayer wrote:
>> >> >> It's better practice for all functions called by the threads to
>> >> >pass the driver

[…snip…]

>> 
>> Hmm, is the downside of doing a full codebase reformat greater than
>> always doing the code formatting manually? Probably it is, otherwise it
>> would have already be done :)
>>
>> If we would have such a big commit we could list it in a
>> `.git-blame-ignore-revs` file so it will ignored by git blames.
>
> Yes, that's great for git blame. The bigger problem though is that
> a bulk reformat will immediately kill the ability of distro
> maintainers to cleanly cherry-pick patches across the big reformat
> commit. Cherry-picking the reformat likely won't be clean either,
> so they'll be faced with many patches needing manual editting.

Yes, but isn't that already the case most of the time? But since I do
not backport libvirt fixes, I cannot answer this for sure :)

Anyhow, we shouldn't misuse this mail thread for the side discussion :)
Is it worth starting a separate thread for it or is the answer a clear
NACK?

>
> The tricky question is whether it is none the less worthwhile doing
> it. The distro maintainer pain will be very real, but also somewhat
> timelimited, as the need to backport fixes to a given release
> as it ages.

If the people doing the backporting are more or less libvirt developers,
it might be a good trade for them in the long run.

>
> With regards,
> Daniel
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