Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:16:53 +0300 (MSK) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Handbook whitespace cleanup Message-ID: <20060213221433.F33283@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <20060213124351.GB896@zaphod.nitro.dk> References: <20060213152314.B14115@woozle.rinet.ru> <20060213124351.GB896@zaphod.nitro.dk>
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On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: SLN> On 2006.02.13 15:25:24 +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: SLN> SLN> > I think at least largest chapters (e.g., 300+ lines with whitespace changes) SLN> > should be cleaned up. Any objections (besides well-known issue with screen SLN> > and programlisting contents where should be no tabs)? SLN> SLN> My position is the same as I have said before, I think whitespace SLN> changes for the sake of whitespaces changes is a bad idea, since the SLN> added pain is greater than the gain. Also, if whitespace changes are SLN> to be done in sweep the chapters should be completely fixed including SLN> indentation, line breaks etc. since the pain will be the same. Pain SLN> in this case is all the uncommitted changes which will be nuked and SLN> cvs annotate which will be more difficult to use. Yes, I've got your point and after a bit of thinking fully agree. Fortunately most of my whitespace cleanup for serialcomms chapter come from one large commit, so it's unlikely make [new] pain for other developers. Thanks. Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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