3 line diff creates 700 line whitespace diff problem

[Ceri Davies]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 09:03:32AM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 05:45:37PM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> > On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 23:04:21 +0100
> > Ceri Davies <ceri at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > jon at witchspace.com pointed out to me that the section numbers in the
> > > IPsec section of the handbook are slightly off: 10.9.4 and 10.9.5
> > > should really be 10.9.3.1 and 10.9.3.2.
> > 
> > Thats bad.
> 
> Many parts of this section are a bit "weird", like "Scenario #1" when
> there is no #2, etc.
> Maybe Hiten could look at it.

Yes, it also mentions that there are three steps, then only talks about the
first two.

> About whitespaces, in my opinion, it must be done when the file starts to
> be too difficult to read: a lot of too long lines etc. or when the
> "layout" is completely wrong (maybe this is the current case).
> If you do it, this must be done in one time for the whole file, and fix
> at the same time trailing spaces, tabs instead of 8 spaces etc.

Despite past discussions we've had, I'd agree with that.

> > My personal opinion is that the section numbers should be in a logical
> > and consistent order.  The whitespace could be fixed over time.
> >
> 
> I agree.  And since the chapter will be changed soon (Tom's Kerberos
> addition, many fixes in the IPsec section etc.) maybe we could wait for
> the "end" of changes before.

OK, I've committed the diff, and left the whitespace alone for now.

Ceri
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