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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Geert Bosch <bosch@adacore.com>,
	David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>,
	Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>,
	Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com>,
	Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>,
	Ren? Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>,
	Junio Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Bisect dunno
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:46:28 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710180045160.25221@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710171553580.26902@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, David Kastrup wrote:
> 
> > Geert Bosch <bosch@adacore.com> writes:
> > 
> > > On Oct 15, 2007, at 13:53, David Symonds wrote:
> > >> That's also why I suggested "skip"; you might not be able to test a 
> > >> particular commit, but you might also not *want* to test a 
> > >> particular commit for some reason.
> > >
> > > Skip seems a great choice: it directly expresses the wish to not 
> > > consider a certain commit. The reason is unimportant.
> > 
> > But it is an _action_, while "good" and "bad" are properties.
> 
> Well, this has been debated to death, but I actually think that "skip" 
> is a good choice, exactly because it's an action.

Could we, _please_, first decide if the implementation has merits, and 
just apply it as is in that case?  We can rename it whatever anybody likes 
later, and we can paint the bikeshed brown if you want to.

Ciao,
Dscho

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-17 23:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-14 12:28 [PATCH 0/7] Bisect dunno Christian Couder
2007-10-14 12:43 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-14 12:59   ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-14 13:00   ` David Kastrup
2007-10-14 15:09     ` Christian Couder
2007-10-14 15:09       ` David Kastrup
2007-10-14 15:14         ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-14 16:13       ` René Scharfe
2007-10-14 16:25         ` David Kastrup
2007-10-14 16:35           ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-14 17:24             ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2007-10-14 17:48               ` David Kastrup
2007-10-15  6:04                 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2007-10-15  6:15                   ` David Symonds
2007-10-15  7:02                     ` Johan Herland
2007-10-15  9:31                       ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-15 11:53                         ` David Symonds
2007-10-15 20:33                           ` Geert Bosch
2007-10-15 20:47                             ` David Kastrup
2007-10-16  6:07                               ` David Symonds
2007-10-16  6:17                                 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-17 16:10                                   ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-10-17 16:13                                     ` David Kastrup
2007-10-17 16:17                                     ` Karl Hasselström
2007-10-17 19:23                                       ` Karl Hasselström
2007-10-17 22:59                               ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17 23:46                                 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2007-10-17 23:59                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-18  1:24                                   ` David Symonds
     [not found]                                 ` <200710190449.49477.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
2007-10-19  2:49                                   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-16  3:41                     ` Christian Couder
2007-10-15  8:25                   ` David Kastrup
2007-10-14 17:25       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-14 16:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-17  7:35 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-17 18:10   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-17 23:36     ` Christian Couder

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