On 18-Dec-2012, at 10:40 AM, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com> wrote:
> Hi all (doc folks in particular), > > I've noticed that many of the commits and patches sent in via review > board for the docs files are often filled with many text formatting > changes. For example: https://reviews.apache.org/r/8635/ > > The primary change is supposed to be in the text itself, but it's > often very difficult to parse through all of the formatting changes to > find the documentation content that's actually being changed. > > I'm wondering if folks are using an editor that's automatically > reformatting some of the text. Is that the case? > > Any chance that we can all configure our editors to not make those > types of formatting changes by default (perhaps only when something is > particularly messy, in which case it deserves it's own commit IMO). +1 Pl. don't send us patches with those evil lines, trailing whitespaces and tabs. I don't mind if your patch has cosmetic changes, but yes we should have cosmetic patches (such as name fixes, coding convention fixes, tab/whitespace fixes, anything all visual less logic) submitted separately. Regards. > > Thanks! > > -chip
