svn commit: r333494 - head/share/man/man7

Ian Lepore ian at freebsd.org
Fri May 11 18:19:00 UTC 2018


On Fri, 2018-05-11 at 08:26 -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ]
> > 
> > Author: trasz
> > Date: Fri May 11 15:11:53 2018
> > New Revision: 333494
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/333494
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Improve development(7):
> >   
> >    - Use Fx when referring to FreeBSD.
> >    - Use Ql instead of Cm for command invocations.
> >    - Remove some redundant Pp macros.
> >    - Use a literal indented Bd instead of a series of Dl macros.
> >   
> >   Submitted by:	0mp@
> >   Reviewed by:	eadler@
> >   MFC after:	2 weeks
> >   Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15126
> > 
> > Modified:
> >   head/share/man/man7/development.7
> > 
> > Modified: head/share/man/man7/development.7
> > ===================================================================
> > ===========
> > [...]
> >  to STABLE.
> >  Every few years the CURRENT branch is renamed to STABLE, and a new
> >  CURRENT is branched, with an incremented major version number.
> > -Releases are then branched off STABLE and numbered with
> > consecutive minor numbers.
> > +Releases are then branched off STABLE and numbered with
> > consecutive minor
> > +numbers.
> Proper place to line break long lines is at conjuncatives such
> as the "and" above, yeilding:
> Releases are then branched off STABLE
> and numbered with consecutive minor numbers.
> 

The last thing we need is more stupid arbitrary rules that discourage
people from writing manpages. This commit deserves praise, not
pointless nitpicking.

-- Ian



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