docs/71826: [PATCH] Whitespace cleanup

[Ceri Davies]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 02:00:19PM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:32:19 +0300
> Peter Pentchev <roam at ringlet.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 01:51:52PM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> > > On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 19:32:37 +0200
> > > Marc Fonvieille <blackend at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 10:41:11AM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > 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 ...
> > > > >
> > > > 
> > > > And what about the mirrors, the bandwidth used etc... ?
> > > 
> > > Do any of the mirrors need more disk space?
> > 
> > It's not just the mirrors, either.  I don't know about you, but I
> > personally like having a local copy of the repository, so diffs, logs,
> > annotate's, branch checkouts and such are, well, faster :)
> 
> I keep a local copy also, but I'm not one to mind whitespace
> changes that much.  Regardless, we all have different views and
> I think that a lot of people here try to accomidate these.  I've
> kept whitespace changes down, because, well, I don't want to
> deal with complaints over it.  Trust me, if I wanted to piss
> people off with whitespace changes I could.  (see the amount of
> whitespace fixes which could be applied to different chapters.)

I have found one reason for avoiding whitespace commits that I really
believe in: it destroys the usefulness of "cvs annotate".

Ceri
-- 
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