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i have a recent diff where 300 changes are just things like moving whitespace
still fuck you for that mess
I had a new dev that was tasked with changing the colors of a button. took them 3 days to do it.
when I finally got the PR there were over 300 files changed and over 100k changes.
they "fixed" the while space. I asked them who asked them to do that. "Nobody, it's just maintenance on the codebase."
I then had an hour long call with them reviewing everywhere they "fixed" the whitespace and got through 10% of it. I asked them if they wanted to have another call tomorrow to review the rest or if they wanted to put the changes forward they were tasked with.
they got the hint and fixed their shit.
Does the work item describe this technical cleanup? No? PR rejected for including out of scope work.