Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_apache.org>:
> Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_apache.org>:
> > > [...] I have come across a number of kinds of what could
> > > be called a "no-op change" or perhaps better described as "I touched this
> > > but did not change its value".
> [...]
> > No-op commits are specifically awkward for
> [...]
>
> Eric, thank you for your thoughts on no-op commits.
>
> Unfortunately I failed to make clear that I didn't mean to talk about an
> entire commit that is in total a no-op. That is of course one manifestation
> of a no-op change, and I would certainly be interested in discussing it.
>
> However, in this thread I specifically meant to talk about all the possible
> variants of micro-change within a commit (or within a diff or update or
> merge or ...). For the sake of simplicity, let's say we're talking about a
> commit that also contains at least one "operative" change.
>
> - Julian
Then I no longer undersrand what we are talking about.
--
Eric S. Raymond
Received on 2019-10-14 20:28:47 CEST