code review request for 6880112, Coin: use diamond in core libraries

[Joe Darcy]

On 12/17/2010 11:57 AM, Stuart Marks wrote:
> On 12/17/10 6:54 AM, Paul Benedict wrote:
>> Do it as two commits (one for diamond, the other for line formatting)
>> that way you can keep the work separate. You may even want 2 Sun
>> tracking issue in case you need to do several commits under one issue.
>
> The jcheck rules *require* a separate bug ID for each commit.
>
> I'm thinking not only of this particular change, but future changes I 
> plan to make, where I'll do the diamond conversion other areas of the 
> JDK, broken down into suitable chunks for easy review. It's bad enough 
> that each chunk will require a separate bug IDs. If I were to make the 
> diamond conversions separate changesets from line joins, it'd require 
> *two* bug IDs for each chunk.
>
> While I agree there would be some value in keeping these changes in 
> separate changesets, the sense I get from talking to other folks is 
> that it isn't worth the additional overhead.
>

That is my evaluation of this situation.

-Joe