- Add some information about the handling of whitespace changes

- Cut a long line while here

PR:		danfe
Submitted by:	docs/116459
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Gabor Kovesdan 2007-11-11 19:17:48 +00:00
parent e13f73ad67
commit 7d934c0974
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-08 03:00:23 +00:00
svn path=/head/; revision=31018

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@ -680,8 +680,18 @@ PLIST_DIRS= lib/X11/oneko</programlisting>
<command>autoconf</command> to regenerate
<command>configure</command>, do not take the diffs of
<command>configure</command> (it often grows to a few thousand
lines!); define <literal>USE_AUTOTOOLS=autoconf:261</literal> and take the
diffs of <filename>configure.in</filename>.</para>
lines!); define <literal>USE_AUTOTOOLS=autoconf:261</literal> and
take the diffs of <filename>configure.in</filename>.</para>
<para>Also, try to minimize the amount of non-functional whitespace
changes in your patches. It is common in Open Source world that
projects share large amount of code base, but obey different style
and indenting rules. If you take working piece of functionality from
one project to fix similar area in another, please be careful: the
resulting line patch may be full of non-functional changes. It does
not only increase the size of the CVS repository but makes it hard
to find out what had exactly caused the problem and what did you
change at all.</para>
<para>If you had to delete a file, then you can do it in the
<maketarget>post-extract</maketarget> target rather than as part of