On Fri, 7 Oct 2016, SF Markus Elfring wrote: > > but patches that just fix coding style are a bad thing > > When you find such a change opportunity so "bad", are there any > circumstances left over where you would dare to touch the corresponding > source code line.
If you actually rewrite the code or fix some real bug there. > > because they break things like `git blame` > > I follow your concern to some degree. > > But can this argument evolve against a lot of changes generally? If I have to reiterate git blame multiple times just because of whitespace or codingstyle changes, it's a pure waste of my time. If I have to reiterate git blame multiple times to skip actual real changes, I have no other option than to live with that (because there was an actual functional reason for the change). -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs
