Am 2025-10-17 01:29, schrieb Rick Macklem:
On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM Rick Macklem <[email protected]> wrote:Please be aware of the following snippets from "man 9 style":In general code can be considered "new code" when it makes up about 50%or more of the file(s) involved. This is enough to break precedents in the existing code and use the current style guidelines.Stylistic changes (including whitespace changes) are hard on the sourcerepository and are to be avoided without good reason. rickJust to be clear, I am not asking that this commit be reverted. I am just suggesting that you be aware that style(9) changes to extant code is not, in general, encouraged, afaik unless you are re-writing a large portion of the code (over 50%).
Does someone remember why? We have now the possibility to exclude commits from the VCS attribution of lines to commits (git blame), as such, does the reason of not doing it still hold?
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