From owner-cvs-src Fri Feb 14 16:37: 6 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A189037B405; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:37:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31AC943FAF; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:37:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@elvis.mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 04B93AE25A; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:36:59 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:36:59 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Sam Leffler , src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_shutdown.c Message-ID: <20030215003659.GY93252@elvis.mu.org> References: <200302141244.h1ECimG1059062@repoman.freebsd.org> <275601c2d43b$ebd9e580$52557f42@errno.com> <20030214191957.GO93252@elvis.mu.org> <20030214214748.GA2520@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20030214221301.GU93252@elvis.mu.org> <20030214224934.GW93252@elvis.mu.org> <20030214235221.GA3200@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030214235221.GA3200@HAL9000.homeunix.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * David Schultz [030214 15:52] wrote: > > Don't get me wrong---I don't mean to demean your work at all. For > me, the key question is: If I update my sources every few days, > how often do I have to resolve conflicts? It would be *really* > great if whitespace changes always happened in the same places and > at around the same times as content changes (in a separate commit, > of course). In particular, I think things like trailing > whitespace might as well be ignored, since they don't cause > problems as misindented and overly long lines do. (Maybe your > editing environment makes that difficult, and I can respect that.) My editing environment highlights trailing whitespace with blinding yellow. :) Please have mercy. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-src" in the body of the message