From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2016 15:54:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/17] am: counteract gender bias
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1607071753370.6426@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqmvltqxjs.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Hi Junio,

On Thu, 7 Jul 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> >> I doubt this kind fo distraction is desirable in the middle of a
> >> seriously heavy series like this one.  As a standalone clean-up to
> >> turn these directly to "their" that everybody would agree on and can
> >> be merged down quickly to 'master' that does not have to keep the
> >> body of the main topic waiting for the dust to settle might be a
> >> better approach.
> >>  ...
> > I am really curious, though. Has it not been our practice to encourage
> > preparatory patches like white-space or const fixes as part of patch
> > series that touch a certain part of the code that needed fixing?
> 
> Yes, isn't that "preparatory clean-up" what I said "might be a
> better approach"?

What I meant by "preparatory clean-up" is a patch in the patch series,
just as I had it.

Now it is a separate patch "series".

Ciao,
Dscho