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Date:      Mon, 25 Nov 2002 03:02:42 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Style(9) question
Message-ID:  <20021125010242.GE15728@gothmog.gr>
In-Reply-To: <3DE1739B.5AD2AEA7@mindspring.com>
References:  <20021122193040.GA23078@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20021122214405.GA11011@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <8gof8g83w4.f8g@localhost.localdomain> <20021124090603.GA3172@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20021124100846.GC51850@raggedclown.net> <20021124162717.GA576@gothmog.gr> <3DE1739B.5AD2AEA7@mindspring.com>

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On 2002-11-24 16:49, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > On 2002-11-24 11:08, Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net> wrote:
> > > Can someone tell me if working code has ever been rejected from FreeBSD
> > > sources because it grossly violated the style guidelines ?
> > 
> > Not really "rejected", but if you troll the PR database for a while,
> > you will notice followups to the spirit of ``This looks fine, but it
> > doesn't fit the style of the affected sources.  Can you please fix
> > this, and post the new patch in a followup?''
> 
> How about just committing the fix, and filing a "style PR" against
> the working code, instead of having style(9) compliant broken code?

That makes the PR databas grow linearly in relation to the number of
submitted PRs that have ``style issues''.  I am more in favor of
fixing any style issues, then commiting the fix, and closing the PR
with a notice to the spirit of "I have changed the diff a bitt,
because of `foo', and have committed it in revision x.y.z of `bar'."

This way both the submitter and people who read the bug report in the
future, can quickly spot the commit and see what was done differently.
Why it was done differently, is what should be noted when the PR closes.

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