On Sep 20, 2013, at 1:22 PM, Johan Engelen wrote:

Hi all, Please don't fix a bug or change code in a commit where you reformat a lot of the code aswell.

As an example, it is extremely hard to see what part of this commit actually changed code: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/revision/12548

Thanks! Johan

Yes. Johan makes a very good point here.

If you have code that needs whitespace cleanup and/or reformatting it is best to do those in a separate commit. Among other things it will keep your meaningful changes easier to spot. Additionally it can help with merging between branches.