[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] checkpatch/Codingstyle and trivial patch spam

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 04:35:06PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> 
> The --force is only required for non-staging code?  If it is required for
> staging code, then we will have to document it in the outreachy tutorial,
> and then all the (non-outreachy) newbies who look at the tutorial will
> know about it...

The whole point of the option is to try to discourage people from
sending white-space (or only style-only) patches.  So I'm not so sure
that it would be such a tragedy if people like (for example) Markus
Elfing or Nick Krause don't find out about the --force option right
away.  Given that outreachy folks are encouraged to work on staging
code anyway, would it make a difference to them?

     	     	      	     		- Ted