From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.0 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A975D2070D for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2016 15:26:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752908AbcGGP0h (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jul 2016 11:26:37 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp1.pobox.com ([64.147.108.70]:50248 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752896AbcGGP0f (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jul 2016 11:26:35 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 711D428659; Thu, 7 Jul 2016 11:26:34 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=6bP6/vK61u4+ZPSl46GUqCXNSUw=; b=mllTKw mONmuSZ93AniCuY0DEVOWEDr51NzNXigca2iUGngum9fQq9teJtrq4qH7L0Ie2JD gvdgVuxKuenk1akOYdCOa80tCb9BXqe5K/hBDhMQfUHYDpCLKtfnr3gCK/bq8x9t H7KhfmyozCUj2zYIYdO4VUhRKKPzUxLbjBYQ0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=lrn/wEx9JFt9WHGFp4owag1zyxWwpT2A 8iatb3MI7AKz/IvRI1x7eNIy0x7a42IPRo24ZFjRpJqpDsdlX6I6tuHNlTBGrzP/ XTTJunZ63/nv3296xBFT3OijlcCoHPc915QPPFDUYrOWZZVeo0qpgH1ffpwhHTGE UBuQmdVyqyA= Received: from pb-smtp1.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6664A28658; Thu, 7 Jul 2016 11:26:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [104.132.0.95]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D5CE028656; Thu, 7 Jul 2016 11:26:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Johannes Schindelin Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Eric Sunshine , Jeff King , Johannes Sixt , Duy Nguyen Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/17] am: counteract gender bias References: Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2016 08:26:31 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Thu, 7 Jul 2016 13:30:36 +0200 (CEST)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 30001EE2-4457-11E6-B51F-89D312518317-77302942!pb-smtp1.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Johannes Schindelin writes: >> I doubt this kind fo distraction is desirable in the middle of a >> seriously heavy series like this one. As a standalone clean-up to >> turn these directly to "their" that everybody would agree on and can >> be merged down quickly to 'master' that does not have to keep the >> body of the main topic waiting for the dust to settle might be a >> better approach. >> ... > I am really curious, though. Has it not been our practice to encourage > preparatory patches like white-space or const fixes as part of patch > series that touch a certain part of the code that needed fixing? Yes, isn't that "preparatory clean-up" what I said "might be a better approach"?