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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: FAQ update try 2 
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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