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From: Andrew Wong <andrew.kw.w@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/3] wt-status: Make conflict hint message more consistent with other hints
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 18:07:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADgNjan+2kS-L4KwS4-wBMHcuQdW4cuHTNj4TA3yqExtr=dCUQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqmwhd391s.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> I see that you are trying to match the phrasing used in the other
> side of this if/else (which is outside the context of the posted
> patch).  Over there we say "... to conclude merge" while the new
> text says "... to conclude THE merge".  Don't we want to match them?

Ah, good catch. My mind just read it as "conclude THE merge", even
though the word wasn't there. Let's add the "the" in. :)

> For those who did not look beyond the context of the patch text, as
> I had to look these up to convince myself that the proposed change
> is a good one.  This function is only called when we see MERGE_HEAD,
> so "unmerged" here can come only from a failed merge, not other
> mergy operations like am, cherry-pick, revert, etc. and telling the
> user that 'commit' will conclude the merge will not be misleading
> (unless you count "'git commit' will conclude a conflicted 'git pull'"
> as misleading, and I of course do not).

I'll update the commit message to explain that I'm match the other
side of the if/else.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-26 23:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-26 18:06 [RFC 0/3] Make git more user-friendly during a merge conflict Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 18:06 ` [RFC 1/3] wt-status: Make conflict hint message more consistent with other hints Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 20:34   ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-02-26 20:37   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-26 23:07     ` Andrew Wong [this message]
2014-02-26 18:06 ` [RFC 2/3] merge: Add hints to tell users about "git merge --abort" Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 20:38   ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-02-26 23:16     ` Andrew Wong
2014-03-05 15:30     ` Andrew Wong
2014-03-05 18:29       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-05 20:51         ` Andrew Wong
2014-03-05 21:20           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-05 18:35       ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-26 18:06 ` [RFC 3/3] reset: Change the default behavior to use "--merge" during a merge Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 18:21   ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-26 20:15     ` Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 20:48       ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-02-26 23:37         ` Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 20:57       ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-27  0:00         ` Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 20:53     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-11  4:39       ` Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 20:26 ` [RFC 0/3] Make git more user-friendly during a merge conflict Jonathan Nieder
2014-02-28  9:01   ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-28  9:14     ` Charles Bailey
2014-02-28 10:11     ` David Kastrup
2014-02-28 14:13       ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-28 14:21         ` David Kastrup
2014-02-28 17:26           ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-28 17:33             ` David Kastrup
2014-03-01 10:32               ` Stephen Leake
2014-03-01 11:38                 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-03-01 16:50                   ` Stephen Leake

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