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Date:      Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:41:45 -0400
From:      Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports UPDATING
Message-ID:  <20110712134145.GA42662@atarininja.org>
In-Reply-To: <4E1B872D.4050000@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201107111955.p6BJthfG007284@repoman.freebsd.org> <4E1B872D.4050000@FreeBSD.org>

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On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 04:28:45PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> This isn't personal, since I have a lot of respect for you and the work
> that you do. (And I know you see this coming) But ...
> 
> This change has 2 problems. First, I have a generally bad opinion about
> this endless twiddling of stuff in this file, but that's just me. The
> actual problem is that your change is in the wrong direction. For time
> immemorial we've standardized on 2 spaces after full stops. It's
> anachronistic, and I don't particularly like it myself, but that IS the
> standard for our documentation.

I didn't realize it was the standard for our documentation. I have since
reverted almost all of the changes in this commit. The only one left
standing is the double space after the AUTHOR: entry mentioned my
mandree@ in this thread.

-- WXS



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