Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 18:41:25 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 vga.4 syscons.4 Message-ID: <20001004184125.A253@parish> In-Reply-To: <50372.970678617@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>; from sheldonh@uunet.co.za on Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 06:56:57PM %2B0200 References: <200010032251.PAA40741@freefall.freebsd.org> <50372.970678617@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>
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On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 06:56:57PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Tue, 03 Oct 2000 15:51:28 MST, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > Modified files: > > share/man/man4 vga.4 syscons.4 > > Log: > > Change macros Em -> Dv. > > Also removed hard sentence breaks introduced in my last commit. > > > > Suggested by: sheldonh > > For the record, and for the benefit of those who try to learn the right > way to do things by watching commit mail, let me point out that I didn't > suggest making content and whitespace changes in a single commit. > Mea culpa, I should have realized. Sorry to both the translators and sheldonh (for implying he suggested it). > Using a single commit to bring in both content and whitespace changes > generally (although not always) makes life harder for the translators. > > In fact, from what I've heard, any commit that mixes different kinds of > changes (e.g. new text _and_ typos) makes life harder for translators. > This probably extends to a more general rule: don't mix different kinds > of changes into a single commit. > > Ciao, > Sheldon. > -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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