Handbook whitespace cleanup

[Tom Rhodes]

On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:42:37 +0200
Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 2006-02-13 12:56, Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net> wrote:
> >On 13 Feb 2006, at 12:25, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> >> Dear colleagues,
> >>
> >> I think at least largest chapters (e.g., 300+ lines with whitespace
> >> changes)
> >> should be cleaned up.  Any objections (besides well-known issue
> >> with screen
> >> and programlisting contents where should be no tabs)?
> >
> > Sorry, I don't see the point.
> > At the very least make sure that nobody has diffs in progress.
> 
> This is not very easy.  It isn't enough either.  Large sweeps for
> indentation, wrapping and whitespace may also invalidate the patches we
> have in our bugs database; which, frankly, sucks even more than seeing
> how Gnats tends to mutilate & do various ugly things with patch
> whitespace already.
> 
> I prefer small whitespace/indentation commits as followup commits to
> content changes, or even as part of content rewrites/fixes.

Or, like in src/, before a large amount of work is done
on that particular piece of documentation.

-- 
Tom Rhodes