On Mar 25, 2013, at 3:53 AM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's by no means a big deal, but the linebreaks were there on purpose, so > that if you add or remove or modify a sentence in a paragraph, the > corresponding diff is relatively short and clear. When you have a single > 655-character-long paragraph, like we now do here, that means any change to > any part of that paragraph will show up in the diff email as a change to the > entire paragraph, and it will be difficult to see from the diff what change > was made, and this makes spotting errors more difficult. That makes a lot of sense, actually. I thought they were there erroneously. > Also, your diff above has combined changes to the substance of the document > with whitespace changes, so that it's difficult to see from the diff what the > substantive changes are. My fault. It's harder to keep track of whitespace vs. substance for prose than code, I find. vq _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
