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.

Yet another anachronism in style(9).
(Does that sentence even mean what I think it means? Somehow it sounds like "there is no good reason, but avoid them anyway" instead of "avoid them if you have no good reason".)


And for the N'th time I will say: style is guideline and not a contract. The day people arbitrarily change code simply because some cabal decided where spaces should go is the day people will stop contributing. It's all fine and well to make style consistent when you're working in an area of the code (and can verify your changes) but knob polishing is just code churn and in my experience is counter-productive. Spend your time and effort on fixing real problems; god knows we've got enough of 'em...

   Sam

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