Eric S. Raymond wrote:
Julian Foad <julianf...@apache.org>:
[...] I have come across a number of kinds of what could
be called a "no-op change" or perhaps better described as "I touched this
but did not change its value".
[...]
No-op commits are specifically awkward for
[...]
Eric, thank you for your thoughts on no-op commits.
Unfortunately I failed to make clear that I didn't mean to talk about an
entire commit that is in total a no-op. That is of course one
manifestation of a no-op change, and I would certainly be interested in
discussing it.
However, in this thread I specifically meant to talk about all the
possible variants of micro-change within a commit (or within a diff or
update or merge or ...). For the sake of simplicity, let's say we're
talking about a commit that also contains at least one "operative" change.
- Julian
