I'm guessing that's intentional. The idea is that if you are going to reformat code, it should be the only thing you do in a change; in other words, don't commi

I'm guessing that's intentional. The idea is that if you are going to reformat code, it should be the only thing you do in a change; in other words, don't commit a change that both changes the semantics of the code and changes the formatting. The principle is that formatting is orthogonal to other work and therefore shouldn't be mixed in. Unless you do something wrong, formatting changes are harmless so they can be scanned past by someone reviewing a changelog. Here's a good discussion of the practice on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2214480/committing-when-changing-source-formatting http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2214480/committing-when-c...