Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Again, why whitespace cleanups

[Aaron Bentley]

James Blackwell wrote:
> In lists.arch.users, you wrote:
>
> > James Blackwell wrote:
> >
> > > Please take a look at this screenshot to see why whitespace fixes are
> > > important.
> >
> > I'm sorry.  The fact that things aren't pretty in a graphical merge tool 
> > doesn't justify deliberately introducing invisible changes that will 
> > produce conflicts and nothing else.
>
>
> The point is that it makes my job easier. 

The point is, this makes my job and other peoples' jobs harder.

First I have to whitespace my devo tree, then I have to whitespace my 
backbuilder tree.  Then I have to whitespace my cached archives tree. 
Then I have to whitespace my errors tree.  Then I have to whitespace my 
smallfixes tree.  Then I have to whitespace my writethrough tree.

There's still a lot of useful unmerged changes out there, and 
introducing whitespace changes will either make my job harder, or else 
I'll hand you unmergeable changes, and *your* job will be harder.

> As I told Miles, I want this, so give this one to me, please. :)

I don't want this, Miles doesn't want this, Tom doesn't want this. 
Please don't do it.

Aaron