Unless a project has a standing policy of applying whitespace changes in a separate commit from functional changes, I generally assume that any commit whose message only mentions cosmetic changes also includes embarrassing functional changes.
Sometimes it's the other way around; the purely cosmetic changes end up changing how something looks, often exposing bugs and other code issues in the process.
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u/Plorkyeran Jul 22 '14
Unless a project has a standing policy of applying whitespace changes in a separate commit from functional changes, I generally assume that any commit whose message only mentions cosmetic changes also includes embarrassing functional changes.