From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Witten Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC3 INTRO] I hope this will do it! Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:26:14 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1239647037-15381-1-git-send-email-mfwitten@gmail.com> <7vy6u36215.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 14 18:28:45 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LtlUZ-0005A7-Ql for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:28:12 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753068AbZDNQ0Q (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:26:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751751AbZDNQ0Q (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:26:16 -0400 Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.92.26]:58068 "EHLO qw-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751132AbZDNQ0P (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:26:15 -0400 Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 8so3008430qwh.37 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:26:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=DiCmgrODxUyHd5twtiS9Jf7DDdPp/CTpA1EsgU1nEXU=; b=YCD1sRohEzkse2+Xahzc0PGUAjHBofDk6j3KMXys+2TEwzDMEsMEmEVb6Wpwq6DMiU Z0bRGsy9ewwTpzdR2ya6wSVPg3kXbmulHmBXjqyib60z8d9gQYCuGXlcKxtuZOCY+K+M HDTIGxhHmlxYS1pfPSKDeTC7oaaeB1TxWgIlA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=lWkQuD//4IEcg6cQWo8UT9sUT0tOoJqPVFmxBFKltaBUbr1JcdcqfaQ8xLOojlM2rb lmGh/jvsAcwSbGS/n+hpBhNGP/+fihy3Y/clv8ia8x2rGpldmXDw6xqPO8Y9GBCV/nEU 75MAHHlBquQp3vU+oyms79lw1b7haiBKLqQIM= Received: by 10.224.19.141 with SMTP id a13mr7602663qab.60.1239726374259; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:26:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7vy6u36215.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 04:02, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > It is unfortunate that the interesting ones begin at 10th in the series, > which are beind the 9th one that is a "churn in the middle". (http://marc.info/?l=git&m=123959564630157&w=2): > The general rule of thumb is to do such a clean-up before you start to work on something of substance. (http://marc.info/?l=git&m=123914648915106&w=2): > a good rule of thumb when preparing a series is to have this kind of obvious clean-up first, leaving enhancement patches later in the series. I guess, then, this whitespace patch is something of substance---an enhancement ;-D ... or unnecessary "code churn"... I suppose.