On Monday, November 03, 2014 07:30:07 PM xor wrote:
> On Sunday, November 02, 2014 10:53:22 AM Florent Daigniere wrote:
> > 3) it will break git-blame. Apparently some people care...
> > https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/2009-December/033809.html
> 
> This is actually a very good observation which I didn't notice yet.
> 
> Git-blame is important because discovering the original commit message which
> introduced a piece of code helps very much with understanding why the code
> is like it is. Given that fred is said to not have much documentation, its
> important to be able to at least discover the commit message.
> 
> So I would say that we shouldn't do automated bulk reformatting of the code
> until someone can show that and how git-blame can be used in a way which
> ignores the reformatting-commits.
> Ideas anyone?

Thought about it again:
"git bisect" might do the job.

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