Perl Style: Patches
- When you’re working on someone else’s code, try to follow their lead.
- Avoid reformatting text so it doesn’t create spuriously large diffs.
- Converting tabs to spaces may be necessary to cope with the evil folk who set hardware tabs to something other than 8, or who have custom tab stops. Don’t do that.
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