A Whitespace-Only Patch for the FreeBSD FAQ
Manolis Kiagias
sonic2000gr at gmail.com
Mon Jul 21 19:28:41 UTC 2008
Gabor PALI wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I have a patch to create a pretty-printed FAQ. I would like to ask you
> to support or to deny my commit for making it to look like that. I also
> have a separate .diff (it is ~800K in size):
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~pgj/for_review/2008-07-20/book.sgml
> http://people.freebsd.org/~pgj/for_review/2008-07-20/book.sgml.cvs.diff
>
>
> Here are some statistics:
>
> $ diffstat -w110 book.sgml.cvs.diff
> book.sgml |20009
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------------------------
> 1 file changed, 10148 insertions(+), 9861 deletions(-)
>
>
> Please, inspect this well, compose your ideas on the possible
> enhancements, mistakes, styles. I have an open intention to provide
> useful indentation references for other documents and committers by
> having a well-formed FAQ, that is why I am thinking it is so important.
>
>
+1
FWIW, I believe you should go on with this one. The idea of a well
formed reference document will probably save us from future large
whitespace commits anyway.
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