From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/70168 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: The arch tags in the files... Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:18:25 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: References: <87zkw3qo14.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283257139 18430 80.91.229.12 (31 Aug 2010 12:18:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:18:59 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M18554@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Aug 31 14:18:58 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OqPni-0004Wp-7O for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:18:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OqPnU-0007R1-73; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:18:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OqPnS-0007Qk-EB for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:18:38 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OqPnQ-0004JA-Um for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:18:38 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1OqPnQ-0005w6-00 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:18:36 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OqPnP-0004Ik-AE for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:18:35 +0200 Original-Received: from 62.113.137.5 ([62.113.137.5]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:18:35 +0200 Original-Received: from sb by 62.113.137.5 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:18:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.113.137.5 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:z4LHmWJEzSQrVqqUApn1ZxF36cs= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:70168 Archived-At: >>>>> Miles Bader : > OTOH, there's also no real point to trying to be consistent about > them; I'd say: if you happen to be committing a file for some reason > and notice the arch tag, feel free to delete it, but don't go on one > of these touching-every-file-in-the-repository-for-mind-bendingly-minor-cosmetic-changes > binges. There are already way too many of those these days... While I agree on avoiding the above mentioned binges, I really hate it when people have piggybacked changes like this to other changes. It adds to the noise when looking at the diffs of a particular change.