Commit 499f0184 authored by Malcolm Tredinnick's avatar Malcolm Tredinnick
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Add a note about discouraging whitespace- or formatting-only patches.

We follow the python-dev path here. Deliberately.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@16691 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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      add unnecessary bytes, add visual clutter to the patches and can also
      occasionally cause unnecessary merge conflicts. Some IDE's can be
      configured to automatically remove them and most VCS tools can be set to
      highlight them in diff outputs.
      highlight them in diff outputs. Note, however, that patches which only
      remove whitespace (or only make changes for nominal PEP 8 conformance)
      are likely to be rejected, since they only introduce noise rather than
      code improvement. Tidy up when you're next changing code in the area.

    * Please don't put your name in the code you contribute. Our policy is to
      keep contributors' names in the ``AUTHORS`` file distributed with Django