cvs commit: ports UPDATING
Matthias Andree
mandree at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jul 12 11:06:40 UTC 2011
Am 12.07.2011 04:49, schrieb Alexey Dokuchaev:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 07:55:43PM +0000, Wesley Shields wrote:
>> wxs 2011-07-11 19:55:43 UTC
>>
>> Modified files:
>> . UPDATING
>> Log:
>> - Whitespace fixes - standardize on a single space after periods.
>
> I think this goes against what is commonly used in FreeBSD and suggested by
> Chicago Style Guide. In fact, this commit reverts many cases of my fixes
> (single space to double) and just now contradicts my local huge patch to
> UPDATING I am currently working on.
>
> Perhaps changes like this should receive broader exposure and discussion
> before being committed? For me, I'd prefer it backed out. Single space
> after sentence break really lowers readability for monospaced fonts.
Note that there were also grammar fixes that should _not_ be backed out.
I had intended to align the right-hand columns of the AFFECTS:/AUTHOR:
lines, not so much count blanks. Wesley then went for the majority vote
"everything else is unaligned"...
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