Re: [PATCH] Whitespace Coding style fixes.

From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed Apr 21 2010 - 03:34:50 EST


On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 00:09 -0700, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> On 04/21/2010 12:03 AM, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > You screw up git-blame.
> how does this patch screw it up?

Alexey just doesn't like whitespace patches.

Whitespace patches don't really "screw up" git blame.

git blame displays the current version of a file
with line-by-line commits and the date each line
was last modified.

So whitespace changes make it harder to find which patch
introduced the last logical change for a particular line.

A more interactive git blame with history backtracking
might help keep Alexey happier but who knows for sure...

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