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Re: Reformat all of src/


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Reformat all of src/
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 05:41:18 +0200

> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 20:36:40 -0500
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> One can argue about whether it was worth time to make the changes, but
> since that has been done already, why not put it in?
> 
> A single change which affects only whitespace
> won't cause any confusion no matter how many places that whitespace
> is changed.

It makes digging into code history harder, especially when files are
also renamed later.

We arrived at the current convention of not doing such changes unless
real code changes are also committed based on our practice, so I don't
think we should reverse that decision.



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