Hi Klaus,

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Klaus Aehlig <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hi Petr,
>
> > Also I'd be in favor of submitting a patch series that would fix known
> > violations in the existing code against the style guide.
> >
> > For example, I could set my editor to automatically remove trailing
> > white-spaces, but without fixing existing trailing white-spaces in the
> > code, this would just mess things up.
>
> I'm not a big fan of these only-style changes, especially if it's only
> white space. They mess up authorship and make merges unnecessary hard.
>

You're right, I didn't think of merging and authorship (like git blame).


>
> However, for parts of the code only on master, it would make sense, to
> clean them up before forking off 2.11. For the rest, I'd prefere the
> traditional slow approach: if a patch series touches a function anyway,
> it should also contain a patch cleaning up the style violations there.
>
> What do you think?
>

Sounds good. So before forking we'd do a diff of what has changed since
2.10 and corrected violations we see there?

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