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Date:      Fri, 17 May 2002 09:08:11 +0100
From:      Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
To:        Chris Pepper <pepper@reppep.com>
Cc:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/cvs. operations.html>
Message-ID:  <20020517080811.GD5839@submonkey.net>
In-Reply-To: <p05111906b909ee915174@[64.81.19.109]>
References:  <p05111901b908d6f0c7e5@[64.81.19.109]> <20020516164330.GA96701@hades.hell.gr> <20020516131122.516afea5.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <p05111906b909ee915174@[64.81.19.109]>

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On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 11:39:39PM -0400, Chris Pepper wrote:
> At 1:11 PM -0400 2002/05/16, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> >On Thu, 16 May 2002 19:43:30 +0300
> >Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2002-05-15 23:29, Chris Pepper <pepper@reppep.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> You don't really need the whitespace change (moving 'or' at the
> >> beginning of the last paragraph line).
> >>
> >> You might want to make `this' mode explicit, with something like:
> >>
> >>	If you checked out a ``point in time'', then
> >>	<application>cvs</application> will do nothing, unless ...
> >>
> >> What do you think?
> 
> 	Actually, the real change was addition of 'this' and a comma; 
> or was on one of the touched lines, so I reflowed it. I wouldn't 
> submit a patch just to fix wrapping. I think it's clear with my patch.

Chris,

Problem is that committing whitespace and textual changes together causes
extra work for the translation guys (and Giorgos would know, as he's one of
them), so patches containing both changes can't be used.

Whoever commits changes will normally follow up with a whitespace commit to
fix linewrap if it's necessary, so if you could avoid making whitespace
changes then it's easier for us to commit as we don't have to change it back.
We don't expect you to provide a whitespace only patch as well; we get to do
that ourselves(!).

I know this is sometimes really hard to do, but no matter how stupid the file
looks once you've made your changes, please don't wrap.

Thanks,

Ceri

-- 
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