Re: [PATCH RFC3 INTRO] I hope this will do it!

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 04:02, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

It is unfortunate that the interesting ones begin at 10th in the series,
which are beind the 9th one that is a "churn in the middle".

(http://marc.info/?l=git&m=123959564630157&w=2):

The general rule of thumb is to do such a clean-up before you start to work on something of substance.

(http://marc.info/?l=git&m=123914648915106&w=2):

a good rule of thumb when preparing a series is to have this kind of obvious clean-up first, leaving enhancement patches later in the series.

I guess, then, this whitespace patch is something of substance---an
enhancement ;-D

... or unnecessary "code churn"... I suppose.