[MacPorts] PortfileRecipes modified

Lawrence Velázquez larryv at macports.org
Mon Mar 25 01:03:32 PDT 2013


On Mar 25, 2013, at 3:53 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> 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


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