From: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
To: Chen Gang <chengang@emindsoft.com.cn>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, vbabka@suse.cz, rientjes@google.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mhocko@suse.cz, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
vdavydov@virtuozzo.com, dan.j.williams@intel.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH trivial] include/linux/gfp.h: Improve the coding styles
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 23:39:04 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1602252334400.22700@cbobk.fhfr.pm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56CF8043.1030603@emindsoft.com.cn>
On Fri, 26 Feb 2016, Chen Gang wrote:
> > git blame identifies what commit last altered a line. If a cleanup patch
> > is encountered then the tree before that commit needs to be examined
> > which adds time. It's rare that cleanup patches on their own are useful
> > and this is one of those cases.
>
> git is a tool mainly for analyzing code, but not mainly for normal
> reading main code.
>
> So for me, the coding styles need not consider about git.
You are mistaken here. It's very helpful when debugging; usually you want
to find the commit that introduced particular change, and read its
changelog (at least). Having to cross rather pointless changes just adds
time (need to restart git-blame with commit~1 as a base) for no really
good reason.
Thanks,
--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-25 22:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-24 22:26 chengang
2016-02-25 1:01 ` SeongJae Park
2016-02-25 14:12 ` Chen Gang
2016-02-25 8:57 ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-25 14:23 ` Chen Gang
2016-02-25 14:47 ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-25 22:17 ` Chen Gang
2016-02-25 9:27 ` Mel Gorman
2016-02-25 14:38 ` Chen Gang
2016-02-25 15:12 ` Jiri Kosina
2016-02-25 22:19 ` Chen Gang
2016-02-25 16:07 ` Mel Gorman
2016-02-25 22:29 ` Chen Gang
2016-02-25 22:39 ` Jiri Kosina [this message]
2016-02-26 14:57 ` Chen Gang
2016-02-25 23:12 ` SeongJae Park
2016-02-26 15:06 ` Chen Gang
2016-02-26 2:32 ` Jianyu Zhan
2016-02-26 15:26 ` Chen Gang
2016-02-27 2:45 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-02-27 14:32 ` Chen Gang
2016-02-27 16:53 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-02-28 0:21 ` Chen Gang
2016-02-28 13:27 ` Mel Gorman
2016-02-28 15:28 ` Chen Gang
2016-02-27 23:14 ` Jiri Kosina
2016-02-28 0:47 ` Chen Gang
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