Re: [PATCH trivial] include/linux/gfp.h: Improve the coding styles

[Jiri Kosina]

On Fri, 26 Feb 2016, Chen Gang wrote:

> > git blame identifies what commit last altered a line. If a cleanup patch
> > is encountered then the tree before that commit needs to be examined
> > which adds time. It's rare that cleanup patches on their own are useful
> > and this is one of those cases.
> 
> git is a tool mainly for analyzing code, but not mainly for normal
> reading main code.
> 
> So for me, the coding styles need not consider about git.

You are mistaken here. It's very helpful when debugging; usually you want 
to find the commit that introduced particular change, and read its 
changelog (at least). Having to cross rather pointless changes just adds 
time (need to restart git-blame with commit~1 as a base) for no really 
good reason.

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs