> if you really need to reformat if you could keep them as separate commits 

I am not sure how often I have to explain this? What editor are you using? AFAIK you are actually the odd one out with using Eclispe. So maybe your formatting is "wrong"?

> Besides, this is going to cause conflicts with the patches the documentation team applies for JDG; you're sure they don't know where you live, right?

Feel free to send them my way. I am happy to have a few words with them.