On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:00:42 +0200 Peter Stuge wrote: > > You should just convert the commit diff to not include space > > changes. > > Tom, I don't understand what you mean here? Who should do the convert > and why? It's a human error for both ends, it can thus be done on both sides. > Writing good code takes experience and awareness, and many if not > most are just interested in banging out something that works. Good code ideally is tested. > ... minimize the impact, and the best way is to ... Depends on whose impact you minimize, s/best/alternative/. > Specifically, interactive rebase on its own or combined with > bisecting become a lot easier and quicker with clean commits. Rebasing is overkill in the Portage tree and not needed; as for bisect, it makes it worse because you introduce extra commits to bisect. > Try not to be that person, because it doesn't help anyone. I'm not rooting either side, I just hate the noise that occurs when neither side takes an effort to fix it. I can tell from a private mail from one of the persons that at least one side is interested, I'm not so sure about the other side; but well, better than an endless debate. > If something becomes easier by using a particular process or > workflow, then I think that's a good reason to do it. And that's why I responded, I won't respond any further to this thread. -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : TomWij@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D