[darcs-users] darcs patch: ./src/ByteStringUtils.hs: remove trailin... (and 64 more)

[Florent Becker]

"Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 09:27:03AM +0000, Eric Kow wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 11:46:08 +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote:
>> > When making sweeping changes like this, I've decided a compromise is to
>> > record changes on a per-directory basis rather than per-file (painful
>> > log) or per-repo (painful commutation).
>> 
>> I'm starting to come around to the position that /maybe/ a big bang
>> trailing whitespace change (using the per directory compromise)
>> would be the right thing to do (after the 2009-01-15 release!).
>
> +1
>
> If it's going to be done at all, it should happen just before or just
> after a release, since those are milestones anyway.

I'd say just before. This way, the 2.2 tag depends on that patch, and we
can have the rule of thumb that a released tag is cleanish as a point to
branch-off. (It's nicer to branchers if there are clear points where
they know they can diverge from, and it's clearer if those are the
release tags.)

Florent