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Date:      Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:28:36 +0300
From:      Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com>
To:        Gabor PALI <pgj@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: A Whitespace-Only Patch for the FreeBSD FAQ
Message-ID:  <4884E364.7060303@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4884D790.4090706@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <4884D790.4090706@FreeBSD.org>

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Gabor PALI wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I have a patch to create a pretty-printed FAQ.  I would like to ask you
> to support or to deny my commit for making it to look like that.  I also
> have a separate .diff (it is ~800K in size):
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~pgj/for_review/2008-07-20/book.sgml
> http://people.freebsd.org/~pgj/for_review/2008-07-20/book.sgml.cvs.diff
>
>
> Here are some statistics:
>
> $ diffstat -w110 book.sgml.cvs.diff
>  book.sgml |20009
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 10148 insertions(+), 9861 deletions(-)
>
>
> Please, inspect this well, compose your ideas on the possible
> enhancements, mistakes, styles.  I have an open intention to provide
> useful indentation references for other documents and committers by
> having a well-formed FAQ, that is why I am thinking it is so important.
>
>   
+1

FWIW, I believe you should go on with this one. The idea of a well 
formed reference document will probably save us from future large 
whitespace commits anyway.



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