From: Carlo Arenas <carenas@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2021 20:12:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] difftool: add space after full stop in comments
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On Sat, Oct 2, 2021 at 12:38 PM Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 2, 2021 at 11:49 AM Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > These punctuation typos were found using:
> >
> >     git grep -P ' [a-z0-9A-Z-]+[.][A-Z][A-Za-z-]+ '
>
> While Junio has commented that two spaces after the full stop in
> fixed-width source code viewing looks better, and I personally prefer
> that style as well, I don't think these are worth "fixing".

FWIW those are not adding a second space, but adding ANY space between
a "." and beginning of the next sentence.

> you separated this from the other changes, but I'd rather see this
> patch dropped.

While I don't think encouraging this kind of "fixes" might make sense,
the work was already done and the "churn" is very small (only 2 places
out of ~2K), where we have in the codebase: ".<space><space>"

Carlo