Re: Issues 1503 and 1572 - improved jazz chord support. (issue 5343050)

[David Kastrup]

Adam Spiers <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Graham Percival
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 08:13:46PM +0000, address@hidden wrote:
>>> I am not in favor of the tab-to-space change in
>>> scm/chord-ignatzek-names.scm, since we don't yet have agreement on
>>> removing tabs from .scm files, AFAICS.
>>
>> True, but I assume that other parts of the patch set depend on
>> this, and high-quality work, so I vote for turning a blind eye to
>> this change and accepting the patch set.
>
> Thanks - I tried removing it and rebasing, but it was more work than
> I have time for.

Which is _exactly_ the reason why gratuitous spacing changes are a bad
idea.  Because it makes rebasing more work than people have time for.
In this case, the damage is already done, so there seems little point in
investing the effort for trying to get back again.

> I'm already about 1000% over budget on all this.

Welcome to the club.

-- 
David Kastrup