Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:56:29 -0500 From: Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.org> To: Sam Leffler <sam@freebsd.org> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@freebsd.org>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Christoph Mallon <christoph.mallon@gmx.de> Subject: Re: svn commit: r186751 - in head/sys: netinet6 netipsec Message-ID: <1231196189.9129.1.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <49628F31.5040606@freebsd.org> References: <200901042153.n04LrgkD075147@svn.freebsd.org> <20090104220716.GL14235@hoeg.nl> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901042213530.67103@fledge.watson.org> <20090105172400.T45399@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> <49624DB9.8080900@gmx.de> <20090105194210.P45399@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> <20090105204356.GA52934@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <49627592.60208@gmx.de> <49628F31.5040606@freebsd.org>
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--=-TFryUuFZ4ZKFyM/OjpCd Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 14:52 -0800, Sam Leffler wrote: > Christoph Mallon wrote: > > Steve Kargl schrieb: > >> Stylistic changes (including whitespace changes) are hard on > >> the source repository and are to be avoided without good reason.=20 > > > > Yet another anachronism in style(9). > > (Does that sentence even mean what I think it means? Somehow it sounds=20 > > like "there is no good reason, but avoid them anyway" instead of=20 > > "avoid them if you have no good reason".) > > > > > And for the N'th time I will say: style is guideline and not a=20 > contract. The day people arbitrarily change code simply because some=20 > cabal decided where spaces should go is the day people will stop=20 > contributing. It's all fine and well to make style consistent when=20 > you're working in an area of the code (and can verify your changes) but=20 > knob polishing is just code churn and in my experience is=20 > counter-productive. Spend your time and effort on fixing real problems;=20 > god knows we've got enough of 'em... >=20 > Sam >=20 Maybe prepend 'Mere' to the beginning of that sentence in style(9)? I am amused by the thread on stylistic changes to style(9). /me ducks! --=20 Coleman Kane --=-TFryUuFZ4ZKFyM/OjpCd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAklikBkACgkQcMSxQcXat5eoqgCePtCa+VdbtDF3G3sOs2LitE7R Mm0An0NncYOpsVVavM6uicQe8d+hiQWe =LEXy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-TFryUuFZ4ZKFyM/OjpCd--
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