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> Ok.  I'll just post-process them all back to /**/ at the end of an arc

Note that if you're not careful, making such changes and then
reverting them marks all those line as "your fault" when people are
looking for the last patch that touched them.

> Fair enough.  I change the spacing sometimes when I think it will reduce
> the chance that I'll make actual errors.  It sounds mundane but putting

Again, note that such changes mask the history of those lines.