docs/71826: [PATCH] Whitespace cleanup

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at freebsd.org
Tue Sep 21 06:30:35 UTC 2004


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.
 
 - Giorgos
 



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