From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 08:17:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 08:17:09 -0500 Received: from adsl-64-109-200-233.dsl.milwwi.ameritech.net ([64.109.200.233]:43502 "EHLO alphaflight.d6.dnsalias.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 08:17:01 -0500 Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 07:16:58 -0600 From: "M. R. Brown" To: Wayne Scott Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jmd@turbogeek.org Subject: Re: Extraneous whitespace removal? Message-ID: <20011130071658.A786@0xd6.org> In-Reply-To: <20011129.094040.124092017.wscott@bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="huq684BweRXVnRxX" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011129.094040.124092017.wscott@bitmover.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --huq684BweRXVnRxX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Wayne Scott on Thu, Nov 29, 2001: > From: Jeremy M. Dolan > > Pluses: > > - clean up messy whitespace > > - cut precious picoseconds off compile time > > - cut kernel tree by 200k (+/- alot) > > > > Minuses: > > - adds 3.8M bzip2 or 4.7M gzip to next diff >=20 > As someone who has spend a lot of time working on version control and > file merging, let be tell you the big minus you missed.=20 >=20 > After this patch go into the Linux kernel, everyone who is maintaining > a set of patches in parallel with the main kernel has a lot of extra > work resolving the conflicts caused by this change. You have touched > a huge number of lines and people will have to walk a list of merge > conflicts everywhere they have made local changes and pick their side. > And anytime people do a whole series of the same edits over and over > they will miss that real conflict in the middle and lose some > important change. >=20 diff -w, diff -b, diff -B M. R. --huq684BweRXVnRxX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE8B4bKaK6pP/GNw0URAlGZAJ4v4a06oo0cjy8JBx49w3p+VFyaNgCfSfTT P59G0yh8n4bMRpIBXdaIV8E= =bnSz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --huq684BweRXVnRxX--