From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Mihir Mehta <mihir@cs.utexas.edu>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: none
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 07:19:29 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq36tdla1a.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181010152007.14441-1-mihir@cs.utexas.edu> (Mihir Mehta's message of "Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:20:06 -0500")
Mihir Mehta <mihir@cs.utexas.edu> writes:
> Thanks, Junio. Instead of removing that part of the patch, I opted to
> expand it to make it a little clearer (in my opinion) than it was
> before. Let me know if this works.
I am mildly negative on that change. "Omitting both would give an
empty diff" would be understandable to anybody who understands that
an omitted end of dot-dot is substituted with HEAD *and* thinks what
range HEAD..HEAD means, so it is just an additional noise to them,
and to those who do not want to waste time on thinking, it is a
statement that reads as if "it will be an error" without saying why
it is an error. So overall, it seems, at least to me, that the
additional text adds negative value.
So, I dunno.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-10 22:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-03 21:08 [PATCH] doc: fix a typo and clarify a sentence Mihir Mehta
2018-10-05 6:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-10 15:20 ` Mihir Mehta
2018-10-10 15:20 ` [PATCH] doc: fix a typo and clarify a sentence Mihir Mehta
2018-10-10 22:19 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2018-10-10 22:26 ` Mihir Mehta
2018-10-10 23:27 ` Junio C Hamano
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-10-16 18:43 Dorcas Litunya
2023-10-17 20:21 ` none Junio C Hamano
2019-11-20 3:49 Han-Wen Nienhuys
2019-11-20 4:52 ` none Junio C Hamano
2019-11-20 5:00 ` none Han-Wen Nienhuys
2019-03-03 13:20 [PATCH 1/3] test functions: Add new function `test_file_not_empty` Junio C Hamano
2019-03-03 13:29 ` Rohit Ashiwal
2019-03-03 13:33 ` none Junio C Hamano
2016-04-11 19:04 (unknown), miwilliams
2016-04-11 19:18 ` none Matthieu Moy
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