Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 12:23:47 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@freebsd.org> Cc: "Conrad E. Meyer" <cem@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r333494 - head/share/man/man7 Message-ID: <CANCZdfqmND_b84p8GYksstjf%2BcaSXoO47_HooKjWHv1_6y4FcQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201805111659.w4BGxTAC076331@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> References: <CAG6CVpV1OdJE_EhYp%2BThfyQf4sYyE2O8XuBmuh0ikRVDVZ9BFQ@mail.gmail.com> <201805111659.w4BGxTAC076331@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 10:59 AM, Rodney W. Grimes < freebsd@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 8:26 AM, Rodney W. Grimes > > <freebsd@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > >> @@ -67,7 +72,8 @@ Changes are first committed to CURRENT and then > usuall > > >> to STABLE. > > >> Every few years the CURRENT branch is renamed to STABLE, and a new > > >> CURRENT is branched, with an incremented major version number. > > >> -Releases are then branched off STABLE and numbered with consecutive > minor numbers. > > >> +Releases are then branched off STABLE and numbered with consecutive > minor > > >> +numbers. > > > > > > Proper place to line break long lines is at conjuncatives such > > > as the "and" above, yeilding: > > > > What? Are you just inventing these rules out of blue sky? What > > possible reason is there to do as you have proposed? > > Well known and established man page style rules, documented someplace, > which I can not seem to locate right now. > No such rule exists, and even if it did, it's never been enforced in the last 23 years I've been committing to man pages. I know I'd flat out ignore you if you told me to do that after a commit I did. Warner
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