Re: [boost] index.htm: gratuitous HTML reformatting

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-17 19:25:30

"Aleksey Gurtovoy" <agurtovoy_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams writes:
>> 
>> It appears that recent changes to our index page changed all tags on
>> the index page to uppercase.  From cvs annotate:
>> 
>>   ...
>> 1.186        (rogeeff  28-Oct-04):                         </P>
>> 1.186        (rogeeff  28-Oct-04):                      </TD>
>> 1.186        (rogeeff  28-Oct-04):                   </TR>
>> 1.186        (rogeeff  28-Oct-04):                </TABLE>
>> 1.186        (rogeeff  28-Oct-04):                <TABLE>
>> 1.186        (rogeeff  28-Oct-04):                   <TR>
>> 1.186        (rogeeff  28-Oct-04):                      <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
>> 1.186        (rogeeff  28-Oct-04):                      <TD>
>> 1.186        (rogeeff  28-Oct-04):                         <P>The Boost.. 
>>   ...
>> 
>> Every line with a tag in it was last changed by "rogeeff".  These
>> kinds of sweeping changes are really bad for any source control
>> system, especially when they're entirely unneccessary.  In this case
>> it's complicating the process of merging changes into the release
>> branch.
>
> Oh, please don't merge it. Just paste it there. I'll take care of 
> the reverse transfer after the release.

Too late.  Sorry.

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Dave Abrahams
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