[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu.conf: spaces correction

[Cole Robinson]

On 05/11/2016 04:16 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> On 10.05.2016 17:58, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> On 05/10/2016 11:56 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>>> On 10.05.2016 17:23, Ján Tomko wrote:
>>>> On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 02:21:53PM +0200, poma wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> libvirt/qemu.conf: spaces correction
>>>>>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>  src/qemu/qemu.conf | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
>>>>>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> @@ -285,11 +285,11 @@
>>>>>  
>>>>>  
>>>>>  # The default format for Qemu/KVM guest save images is raw; that is, the
>>>>> -# memory from the domain is dumped out directly to a file.  If you have
>>>>> +# memory from the domain is dumped out directly to a file. If you have
>>>>>  # guests with a large amount of memory, however, this can take up quite
>>>>> -# a bit of space.  If you would like to compress the images while they
>>>>> +# a bit of space. If you would like to compress the images while they
>>>>>  # are being saved to disk, you can also set "lzop", "gzip", "bzip2", or "xz"
>>>>> -# for save_image_format.  Note that this means you slow down the process of
>>>>> +# for save_image_format. Note that this means you slow down the process of
>>>>>  # saving a domain in order to save disk space; the list above is in descending
>>>>>  # order by performance and ascending order by compression ratio.
>>>>>  #
>>>>
>>>> Most of the changes remove double spacing between sentences.
>>>> This was intentional and I do not think it needs to be corrected.
>>>
>>> Can you elaborate more on the reasoning behind this intent?
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing
> 
> What I grasped from the article is that double spacing is now being
> slowly deprecated in favour of a single space between both words and
> sentences.
> 

Double spacing is certainly less common in 'the real world' but it seems like
there are a disproportionate number of people who use it in open source
communication. Still a minority though, and I agree with the general idea of
standardizing on single space in libvirt code

- Cole