On 21/04/14 12:43, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 05:16:26 +0200, Vittorio Giovara 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> ---
>>  libavformat/mov.c | 1108 
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
>>  1 file changed, 633 insertions(+), 475 deletions(-)
>>
> 
> TBH I am not very happy about this patch.
> 
> 1) It does a bunch of things that are not pure reformatting (removing 
> commented
>    out stuff, reordering headers, etc..). This makes the review much harder,
>    because now the reviewer has to check what is actual cosmetics and what is
>    not.
>    So please -- stop doing this. Reformatting patches should contain only
>    reformatting and nothing else. Split other forms of cosmetics into separate
>    patches.
> 2) Overly strict adherence to guidelines makes the code actually _harder_ to
>    read in some places (e.g. unnecessary line breaks, splitting one-line case)
> 3) Finally, the formatting in this file was mostly fine before the patch. I 
> can
>    understand (and even write myself) huge reformatting patches for horrible
>    mpegvideo-level unreadable crap. But obsessively fixing every single
>    formatting nit in every single file you touch is IMO counterproductive.
> 

Automatic cleanups can have this side effect, I wouldn't stall the set
because of that.

lu
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