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Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 07:33:30 +0000
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 1.3 rotatelogs style patch
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"William A. Rowe, Jr." <wrowe@rowe-clan.net> wrote:
>
>I discovered this problem with mod_isapi, which was full of tabs.
>Touched the better part of the file, crossing them back to spaces
>(unintentionally) and the five lines of -real-changes- were completely
>obscured by cruft.

?! Don't you have an edtior that doesn't screw with white space? Or
alternatively use diff and patch in "don't mess up the white space"
mode.

Non-substantive changes, e.g. changing the whitespace, makes the CVS
history much less useful.

Tony.
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