Re: rebased patches?

[Jim Meyering]

Bo Borgerson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Also, I made some syntactic changes to fit with my policy
>> preferences (no ">" operators, and adjusted "const" placement):
>
> Thanks Jim.
>
> BTW - Do you have these policy preferences collected somewhere?  I don't
> remember seeing some of them in the general GNU standards document.
> If they are coreutils-specific would it make sense to have a section in
> HACKING (or maybe a dedicated standards.txt supplement) to explain them?

Those two are my own preferences.
Yes, mentioning them in HACKING is on my list.

I prefer < to >, and caught the bug from Paul.
I'm not alone:
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/3903/focus=4126

I'll dig up justification for my const placement preference later.