docs/71826: [PATCH] Whitespace cleanup

[Tom Rhodes]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 06:30:35 GMT
Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org> wrote:

> The following reply was made to PR docs/71826; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org>
> To: Ceri Davies <ceri at freebsd.org>,
> 	Marc Fonvieille <blackend at freebsd.org>
> Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: docs/71826: [PATCH] Whitespace cleanup
> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 08:54:45 +0300
> 
>  On 2004-09-20 18:15, Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net> wrote:
>  > On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 06:50:11PM +0000, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
>  > >  > The attached patch fixes some whitespaces in
>  > >  > doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/multimedia/chapter.sgml
>  > >
>  > >  This was often discussed in past (consult the freebsd-doc archives).
>  > >  With often the same result: when it's not "mandatory", we leave the
>  > >  things in this state.
>  >
>  > If this is the consensual view (I don't recall the discussion), then
>  > please close the PR.
>  
>  Every commit increases the disk space the particular file needs on the CVS
>  repository server, on all the CVS mirrors, on all the copies of the tree that
>  users keep privately at their home or work, etc.  Bearing this in mind, I have
>  to agree with Marc.  Whitespace commits should only be done rarely, if there's
>  no real problem they might solve (such as aesthetic issues of a particular
>  output format, wrapping of output documents, or similar).
>  
>  Yes, please close this PR.  When someone does a few content commits to the
>  multimedia chapter a whitespace commit can follow.  Fixing spaces just for the
>  sake of fixing spaces isn't really worth the disk space it will take.

Oh forget this.  There is a LOT of storage space that went to
the cluster for home directories and I think the CVS repo.  What
happened to it, well, I don't know ...

-- 
Tom Rhodes