On Sun, Mar 12, 2023, Marc Zyngier wrote: > On Tue, 07 Mar 2023 03:45:50 +0000, > Ricardo Koller <ricarkol@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > No functional change intended. > > I wish people stopped adding this pointless sentence to commit > messages. All changes have a functional change one way or another, > unless you are only changing a comment. The implied context is that there is no change in runtime functionality, which does hold true for many changes. I personally find the annotation helpful, both for code review and when doing git archaeology. If a changelog states that the author doesn't/didn't intend a functional change, then _any_ change in (runtime) functionality becomes a red flag, and for me, prompts a closer look regardless of whether or not I have other concerns with the patch/commit.
