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Re: lynx-dev improving documentation


From: Philip Webb
Subject: Re: lynx-dev improving documentation
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 21:15:18 -0400 (EDT)

980803 Thomas Dickey wrote:
> 980803 Philip Webb wrote:
>> if the patch  > 50 %  the original, it's best to submit a whole new file. 
> but if there's other changes to the same file,
> it's nice to know what the greatly-changed file used as a reference.
> I recently received a ~1M email from someone,
> which contained a whole distribution of a program.
> The actual differences were only about 200 lines (20kb).
 
that's  2 % , isn't it?  not  50 %  ...
but i do accept your underlying point that it's useful to see what's changed.

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