Hi, On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Vegard Nossum wrote: > A lot of kernel developers consider purely-syntactic changes (ie. fixing > whitespace issues) to be noisy/disruptive. Therefore, even when such > changes are for the better (according to the coding style, etc), they do > not usually make it to the "mainline". FWIW I don't think that there are that many developers who think whitespace fixes are useless. For example, Git recently saw a small series which did nothing _except_ white space fixes. And I can see the value of it. Just take your home as an example. You are used to a certain order of things there. I, for one, have a routine where I go when coming home, and where I expect my wine bottle to be. If that bottle is somewhere else, I have to find it first. It's just a tiny itch, but a real one. The same applies to source code: when I am hacking on Git, I expect things in a certain layout, and find my way easily through that. If there are some things I am not used to (yes, even a missing space after an "if"), it takes away my attention briefly from what I want to do. It's just a tiny itch, but a real one. If tiny itches add up, they become larger ones. And soon you have a real problem. So, if somebody tells you that code style does not matter, ignore her. She has no clue about how people tick, really. Ciao, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
