> Also, everyone: I think we should strive to avoid making whitespace
> changes in the same commits as real changes. 3461 is a good example of
> this.
>
> Other people have complained about this in the past. As Owen says  
> later, it's an editor setting. I use 3 or 4 different apps to edit  
> things, depending on what machine I'm on and how in-depth the change  
> is. Whitespace is the last of my concerns... Skim over it, it's not  
> worth making a huge deal out of - focus on something important  
> instead.

I'll focus on what I want, thanks. That's the luxury of using my own  
time to work on an open source project.

I made a simple request that would make reading diffs much easier. If  
your editors introduce changes you didn't make, you should be using  
better tools. You should always be checking your own diffs before  
committing, in my opinion.

The problem is in the "skim over it" part. For example, it's not  
immediately obvious what changed in r3461. If the whitespace was  
separated from the ACTUAL change, the one change (in 3 chunks) would  
be immediately visible.

You might think it's not important, but I think clarity in diffs _is_  
important for code review.

If I'm the only one who thinks this way, I'm happy to shut up about  
it, but I suspect I'm not.

S


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