Paul Bolger wrote: > > Edit the doc (retain existing whitespace > > or your patch will be unreadable). > > Just to clarify, do you mean I need to keep the odd, mid-sentence, linebreaks?
Yes. In general don't touch any existing formatting, just add your new stuff. We need to be able to see the exact differences to the file. If someone does want to fix up messy formatting then that must be done in a separate patch with no other changes. Yes line breaks are important. Long multi-line paragraphs are horrid because when someone changes just one word then the diff will contain lots of extra. Here is an example. To give a hint, i changed two capital Ps to lowercase. --------------------------- [anziso]$ diff 1.txt 2.txt 1c1 < This is a long Paragraph all in one line. This is a long Paragraph all in one line. This is a long Paragraph all in one line. This is a long Paragraph all in one line. This is a long Paragraph all in one line. --- > This is a long paragraph all in one line. This is a long Paragraph all in one > line. This is a long Paragraph all in one line. This is a long paragraph all > in one line. This is a long Paragraph all in one line. --------------------------- -David
