Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 14:54:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FAQ update try 2 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980519145303.11841E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <6899.895542906@time.cdrom.com>
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On Mon, 18 May 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Somebody please commit my new & improved FAQ which should be at > > ftp://gdi.uoregon.edu/pub/FAQ-980511.tar.gz. Pretty please? :-) > > OK, done. In the future, however, it would really save folks like me > time if you could: > > 1. Submit as diffs, not whole files. Whole files make people very nervous > that they'll spam subsequent improvements made in between the time you > took your copy away and the time you want it committed. I usually don't > even *accept* whole-file submissions, but I made an exception in > your case. :) Great, thanks. I will generate patches in the future. (if you'd asked I would have generated them for you...) > 2. Submit them in smaller bundles. I had to split this up by hand in > order to get the change messages associated with the right files > and that's just gratuitous extra work. This will get better with patches. > That said, by all means please don't stop cleaning up the FAQ. :) My FAQ staq is already growing again. :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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