[PATCH] Fix whitespace in comments.
Jeff Law
law@redhat.com
Tue Sep 23 00:06:00 GMT 2014
On 09/20/14 08:48, Tobias Burnus wrote:
> Hi Joost and Thomas,
>
> On 20.09.2014 12:02, Thomas Koenig wrote:
>>> A somewhat trivial patch to cleanup whitespace issues in comments:
>>> sed "s/\. \*\//\. \*\//g"
>>> Tested with a recompile only. Ok for trunk ?
>> OK. (Obvious, really).
>
> I want to point a downside of massive code changes: It makes it more
> difficult to find out with "git/svn blame" when or why a line of code
> was changed.
>
> That's not so much a problem of comment changes like this one – and I am
> fine with that change. :-)
>
> However, I wanted to point out that seemingly trivial and obviously
> correct patches can have a downside. (One can still do such changes, but
> at least one should have weighted them against the downside.)
Yup.
I still want a commit hook which cleans this kind of stuff up so that we
can be done with worry about this kind of stuff.
jeff
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