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Date:      Fri, 14 Feb 2003 15:52:21 -0800
From:      David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_shutdown.c
Message-ID:  <20030214235221.GA3200@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030214224934.GW93252@elvis.mu.org>
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Thus spake Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.ORG>:
> * Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.ORG> [030214 14:13] wrote:
> > * David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> [030214 13:48] wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > More like when looking at the file in otder to fix other things I was so
> > > > turned off by it that it offended me and for that reason needed fixing.
> > > 
> > > A single extra space at the end of a line offends you?  Some of
> > > the ``style problems'' fixed by this commit aren't even in
> > > style(9).  However, the following IS in style(9):
> > 
> > What part of "i needed to work on this file and the badness of the
> > style made it hard for me to do so" don't you understand?
> > 
> > I really have better things to do, so should you.
> 
> Sorry, this was a bit over the top, but I was up until 5am working
> on stuff that "should work" and this is the first response I get
> from the community, complaining about some whitespace changes I did
> in order to make my work easier... not fun. :(

Don't get me wrong---I don't mean to demean your work at all.  For
me, the key question is: If I update my sources every few days,
how often do I have to resolve conflicts?  It would be *really*
great if whitespace changes always happened in the same places and
at around the same times as content changes (in a separate commit,
of course).  In particular, I think things like trailing
whitespace might as well be ignored, since they don't cause
problems as misindented and overly long lines do.  (Maybe your
editing environment makes that difficult, and I can respect that.)

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