[cgma-dev] r3402 - cgm/trunk/itaps

Jason Kraftcheck kraftche at cae.wisc.edu
Mon Dec 7 10:06:43 CST 2009


James Porter wrote:
>> If you must clean up white space and line wrapping and such, it would 
>> be helpful if you would keep such checkins separate from changes to 
>> documentation content or code functionality.  For example, all of your 
>> changes in this checkin will likely be lost unless we push these 
>> changes to the upstream RPI repository.  If someone were inclined to 
>> review the changes you made before doing so, they will be hindered by 
>> the 4000 lines of whitespace changes in this checkin.
> 
> Er, sorry about that. If you prefer, I could extract the actual content
> changes and package that up into a diff for application elsewhere.
> 

It isn't that big of a deal.  I can always use diff -b to discard whitespace
changes.  But in the future it would be helpful if you were to keep large
amounts of whitespace changes as a separate checkin, both for this reason
and for dealing with possible merging conflicts.

thanks,

- jason


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