Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@ymail.com> writes:
> I think it is pretty much SOP for committers to prefer a patch that
> adds a new pair of braces around 50 lines of code and only changes
> non-whitespace of a few lines within that block to leave the block
> at its old indentation.
Yes. It's much easier to review a patch done that way than to wonder if
the apparently-just-whitespace changes are masking something substantive.
In fact, if I'm reviewing a patch that reindents a big chunk of existing
code, I'll frequently not use the patch but reconstruct it that way,
just to be sure.
regards, tom lane