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Date:      Wed, 1 Mar 2017 08:53:50 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        Florian Ermisch <florian.ermisch@mailbox.org>,  "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>,  "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r314473 - head
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On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 8:49 AM, Rodney W. Grimes
<freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
> [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ]
>>
>>
>> Am 1. M?rz 2017 06:45:25 MEZ schrieb "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>:
>> >> Author: imp
>> >> Date: Wed Mar  1 05:05:05 2017
>> >> New Revision: 314473
>> >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/314473
>> >>
>> >> Log:
>> >>   Create README.md file for viewing on github.
>> >>
>> >>   This is a lightly edited README using github's MARKDOWN.
>> >>
>> >>   Submitted by:    Johan <johan2422@gmail.com>
>> >>   Pull Request:    https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/56
>> >>
>> >> Added:
>> >>   head/README.md   (contents, props changed)
>> >> [?]
>> > [?]
>> >Also lots and lots of trailing white space...
>> >
>> >[?]
>>
>> Trailing whitespace can be significant in
>> markdown: Two trailing spaces force a
>> linebreak in the rendered output.
>
> You have to be kidding me?  Anything that treats white space as
> a significant part of the syntax is... well.. broken by design.
>
> Yes, including phython.
>
> A quick google yeilds me this about github markdown:
> (Technical note: Markdown Here uses GFM line breaks, so
> there's no need to use MD's two-space line breaks.)
>
> And wordpress's use of markdown also has abaondon this.
>
> I would say lets please abaondon it as a bad idea as it
> appears as if git/github can use something called GFM?

Knock yourself out if you want to do something better, or get someone
else (not me) to do something better. Ed's already made things look a
bit better, so if you can improve on that work great.

Warner



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