From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2016 15:26:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/17] am: counteract gender bias
Message-ID: <xmqqmvltqxjs.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1607071323440.6426@virtualbox>

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"?