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Date:      Sat, 07 Jul 2001 17:31:03 -0700
From:      Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: to wrap or not to wrap - a question of style for doc/ tree PR's 
Message-ID:  <20010708003103.29BC43E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010707150751.A11446@hades.hell.gr>; from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr on "Sat, 7 Jul 2001 15:07:51 %2B0300"

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Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> writes:
> The SGML sources of the doc/ tree are wrapped at 70 - 78 columns.
> 
> However, when I am send-pr'ing changes, some times adding a tag here
> and there makes the lines longer than the column that they were
> originally wrapped.  The dillema is, should I wrap the resulting SGML
> before doing a `cvs dif -u' or not?

I'd prefer that you minimize the diff.  It's a lot easier to fix the
style violation than to figure out if something changed on that line,
or if you just decided to wrap it.  Of course, if your patch rewrites
the entire paragraph, please fill it.

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