On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Mike Silbersack wrote:

:
:On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
:> I see. Dima suggested in private email that I/we MFC such changes
:> relatively fast in order to avoid that; of course this would be done
:> only after md5 "approval" of the binaries.
:
:Whether you MFC it or not, you're going to cause a lot of commit log
:pollution.  I don't think it's worth the hassle when all we're talking
:about is trailing whitespace.
:

Not only commitlog pollution, but also repository file growth, and wasted
bandwidth from those cvsuping the changes.  My cvsup of the repository took
~4 times as long when the changes were made to the man pages.  You said it
would save ~250K in the source tree.  What's it do to the size of the whole
repository?

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