On 2007-03-05 19:27:05 -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
For example, if you want to change the indentation of the file, do only that, then commit it, with a log message that says you're changing the whitespace.
Some changes will also change the indentation as a consequence (well, perhaps more rarely in Portfiles than in C code...). That's why diff (and Subversion, via -x) has the -w option to ignore all white space change in diffs.
http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/changeset/22515
The whitespace of most of the file was changed, the maintainer was changed, the configure args were changed, and some patches were added,
You can see it more or less as a complete rewrite. There were outdated things and options that probably should never been used (but no comments saying why they were added).
though it doesn't say why or what issue they were supposed to fix.
Just look at the MPFR web site. The full description of what the patches fix would be a bit too much for the log file (IMHO, MacPorts lacks ChangeLog support). BTW, what homepage should be? The home page of the software or the home page of the particular version of the software? -- Vincent Lefèvre <vincent@vinc17.org> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)