25 Nov
2009
25 Nov
'09
4:17 p.m.
On Nov 25, 2009, at 9:13 AM, Nate Gallaher wrote:
I understand the "preserve existing format" rule, particularly in cases of braces, inter-paren spacing, variable names, function names, and alignment, but I don't see the benefit of keeping 80-cols insanity around.
One important reason to avoid whitespace-only changes is it makes git-blame essentially useless for finding the real source of functional changes.
-Ken