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Date:      Fri, 11 May 2018 09:59:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
To:        cem@freebsd.org
Cc:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@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:  <201805111659.w4BGxTAC076331@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAG6CVpV1OdJE_EhYp%2BThfyQf4sYyE2O8XuBmuh0ikRVDVZ9BFQ@mail.gmail.com>

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> 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.

> Conrad

-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org



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