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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
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Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
Subject: Re: Handbook whitespace cleanup
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On 2006-02-13 12:56, Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> wrote:
>On 13 Feb 2006, at 12:25, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> I think at least largest chapters (e.g., 300+ lines with whitespace
>> changes)
>> should be cleaned up.  Any objections (besides well-known issue
>> with screen
>> and programlisting contents where should be no tabs)?
>
> Sorry, I don't see the point.
> At the very least make sure that nobody has diffs in progress.

This is not very easy.  It isn't enough either.  Large sweeps for
indentation, wrapping and whitespace may also invalidate the patches we
have in our bugs database; which, frankly, sucks even more than seeing
how Gnats tends to mutilate & do various ugly things with patch
whitespace already.

I prefer small whitespace/indentation commits as followup commits to
content changes, or even as part of content rewrites/fixes.

- Giorgos