My mistake. I mostly use the man pages. ;) At least I was correct about the # as comment lines.
With regards, Nick Stolwijk ~Senior Java Developer~ iPROFS Wagenweg 208 2012 NM Haarlem T +31 23 547 6369 F +31 23 547 6370 I www.iprofs.nl On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote: >> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 01:00:45PM +0200, Nick Stolwijk wrote: >>> In all Unix like configuration files, the # means that line is a >>> comment. Often the value mentioned on the line is not the default, so >>> uncommenting the line will give you the other value. > > Stefan, Nick is mistaken about this. Review any number of common tools > like Sendmail, Bind, and OpenSSH, Makefile for thousands of GNU > projects, etc. Nick, you're going to have real trouble if you rely on > this as expected practice. The "common practice" in the Free Software > Foundation (maintainers of gcc and emacs and gzip), for example, is > precisely the reverse. *Defaults* are commented out, and uncommenting > them does *nothing*. Uncommenting and editing them changes things. > >> I just committed the following change to clear this up once and for all >> in newly generated configuration files. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> r1126980 | stsp | 2011-05-24 13:16:36 +0200 (Tue, 24 May 2011) | 4 lines >> >> * subversion/libsvn_fs_fs/fs_fs.c >> (write_config): Be crystal-clear about the default value of the rep-sharing >> option. >> >> >> Index: subversion/libsvn_fs_fs/fs_fs.c >> =================================================================== >> --- subversion/libsvn_fs_fs/fs_fs.c (revision 1126979) >> +++ subversion/libsvn_fs_fs/fs_fs.c (revision 1126980) >> @@ -1150,6 +1150,7 @@ write_config(svn_fs_t *fs, >> "### The following parameter enables rep-sharing in the repository. It >> can" NL >> "### be switched on and off at will, but for best space-saving results" >> NL >> "### should be enabled consistently over the life of the repository." >> NL >> +"### rep-sharing is enabled by default." >> NL >> "# " CONFIG_OPTION_ENABLE_REP_SHARING " = true" >> NL > > But being crystal clear is always a good idea. >
