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Date:   Tue, 11 Oct 2016 18:47:43 +0200
From:   Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
To:     Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc:     Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clean up confusing suggestion for commit references
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On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 12:14:14PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 11:24:01AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >> I no longer have preference either way myself, even though I was in
> >> favor of no-quotes simply because I had an alias to produce that
> >> format and was used to it.
> >
> > I'll admit that I don't care _that_ much and am happy to leave it up to
> > individual authors, as long as nobody quotes SubmittingPatches at me as
> > some kind of gospel when I use the no-quotes form.
> 
> ;-).  
> 
> I just do not want to hear "gitk (or was it git-gui) produces quoted
> form, why are you recommending no-quoted form in SubmittingPatches?"
> 
> I'd say "use common sense; sometimes it is less confusing to read
> without quotes and it is perfectly OK to do so if that is the case".

I do not care about which format it should be either. I just wanted to
be clear about whatever should be used. Since it seems we will allow
both, I am also fine with leaving the description as it is ;-)

Cheers Heiko