[petsc-dev] Ongoing formatting changes

[Matthew Knepley]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> These changes are pretty obnoxious for contributors who have to constantly
> rebase or merge (generating useless merge commits) amidst the constant
> formatting changes. Since most of these are applications of scripts, can we
> just enqueue them and apply them all at once when you consider them
> complete?
>

By your own evaluation (~10%), these commits constitute a "fringe" element
at best :) I don't think they are hard to rebase.

   Matt


> If you want to publish the changes for comment, make a branch (well, hg
> clone) and push there, with an explicit statement that those patches will
> _not_ be merged directly back to petsc-dev. (Their effect will be applied
> by running the script in petsc-dev when it's time to apply.)
>



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experiments lead.
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