From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] git add: add long equivalents of '-u' and '-f' options Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:21:57 -0700 Message-ID: <7vlk16cuu2.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1213436881-2360-1-git-send-email-szeder@ira.uka.de> <200806142344.m5ENiLqk020529@mi0.bluebottle.com> <20080615085305.GA7003@neumann> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: =?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCJDckaSQkJDckSiRKJDMbKEI=?= , "Shawn O. Pearce" , git@vger.kernel.org To: SZEDER =?utf-8?Q?G=C3=A1bor?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jun 15 22:23:38 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K7ylC-0004Nz-3J for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:23:34 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751945AbYFOUWM convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:22:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751634AbYFOUWM (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:22:12 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:42031 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751459AbYFOUWL convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:22:11 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2C5E6CED; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:22:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DA7A26CEB; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:22:05 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20080615085305.GA7003@neumann> (SZEDER =?utf-8?Q?G=C3=A1bor'?= =?utf-8?Q?s?= message of "Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:53:05 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: BBD9CA40-3B18-11DD-AE2E-CE28B26B55AE-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: SZEDER G=C3=A1bor writes: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 08:43:12AM +0900, =E3=81=97=E3=82=89=E3=81=84= =E3=81=97=E3=81=AA=E3=81=AA=E3=81=93 wrote: >> Isn't this patch adding a new feature during the freezing period bef= ore >> the release? What is the policy of accepting such a patch in genera= l? The policy during the freeze is "bugfix only unless otherwise noted", which is, admittedly, not saying much ;-) > I think this patch is rather a bugfix in the user interface than a ne= w > feature. Strictly speaking, this is a new feature but I think the documentation value to clarify -u stands for "update" is great enough to make it an exception. I've rewritten (from empty! Szeder, next time please write sensible commit log message to defend your changes, instead of having _= me_ to defend your changes to others here, like this) the commit log messag= e to clarify this point.