Re: [PATCH 0/3] mingw: introduce a way to avoid std handle inheritance

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2017, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> Can this rationale go in the commit messages?
>
> I thought I had done exactly that in 1/3...

Okay, I'll be more specific.  This cover letter includes some
information about the rationale and motivation for the series.  That's
great: it makes reading the patches easier.  But TBH I'd rather that
it hadn't included that information at all, since if it said "see
patch 1/3 for rationale" then I could save the trouble of reading the
same information twice.

And unfortunately much of the relevant information is not repeated
there.  The cover letter mentions:

- that Visual Studio is a motivating example
- that this is conceptually similar to Unix sockets
- that those do not need to be marked as inheritable, as the process
  can simply open the named pipe. No global flags. No problems.
- that this has already seem some testing in Git for Windows (i.e.
  analagous information to what a Tested-by footer would say)

It is also just more readable than patch 1/3's commit message.  That's
to be expected, since it was written later.  My second draft of
something is often clearer than the first draft.

Thanks and hope that helps,
Jonathan