On 4/24/25 8:02 AM, Ted Lemon wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2025, at 6:13 AM, Michael Richardson wrote:
>> The question remains, when the RPC edits text, whether XML or kramdown,
>> ought they do a do-nothing pass where they change to NSNL.
>> Assume that there is a tool to do this.
>> If not, ought they at least attempt NSNL for any changes that *they* make.
>> {I'd really like that part}
> 
> Good god no. Why would you gratuitously make a change that would affect all 
> subsequent diffs? Someone did this to the mDNSResponder sources back in ~2005 
> and now you can't do git blame on anything prior to that. Please, no 
> gratuitous formatting changes to the source code.
> 

As long as formatting changes are always grouped in a separate commit that does 
not contain any non-formatting changes, this is fine.  Doing interactive 
rebasing in Git is an essential skill to learn to be able to construct 
beautiful commits painlessly.

-- 
Marc Petit-Huguenin
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