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Re: [wwwdocs] Update obvious fix commit policy


On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Diego Novillo <dnovillo@google.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com> wrote:
>
>> I think it might be worth saying that one class of 'obvious' fix that we
>> don't want to go in without prior clearance are bulk white space
>> clean-ups.  These can be a right-royal pain to deal with if you're in
>> the middle of a big re-write of a hunk of code.
>
> Hm, not sure I agree.  Those are the most obvious to me.  Particularly
> after I get my clang format pony.  I've asked for GNU style support.
> It will be a lot easier to keep files properly formatted to the GNU
> guidelines.
>
> Making exceptions to the obvious rule seems illogical to me.

I have found that using git helps to mitigate the merging
pain when the places I am working on have changed
at the same time.

-- 
H.J.


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