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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Johannes Schindelin" <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Jakub Narębski" <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] reset: support the --stdin option
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 16:20:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqa8acxcfj.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170127221221.d53icsq7mdkbqm23@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Fri, 27 Jan 2017 17:12:21 -0500")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I think a lot of the documentation uses <paths> to refer to pathspecs
> (e.g., git-log(1), git-diff(1), etc).  As long as we're consistent with
> that convention, I don't think it's that big a deal.
>
> This spot needs a specific mention because it violates the convention.

Yup, I think we are in agreement.

> I don't know if the are other spots where it might be unclear, but I
> think we're probably better to tighten those as they come up, rather
> than switch to saying "<pathspecs>" everywhere.

Oh, I do not think I would disagree.  As I think this change is an
instancethat makes the resulting text unclear, it would set a good
example to tighten existing one as part of its clean-up.

It can be done as a follow-up bugfix patch (i.e. "previous one made
the resulting document uncleasr and here is to fix it"), but that
would not serve as good ra ole model to mentor newer contributor as
doing the other way around.



  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-28  0:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-11 16:08 [PATCH 0/2] Support `git reset --stdin` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-11 16:09 ` [PATCH 1/2] reset: fix usage Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-11 16:09 ` [PATCH 2/2] reset: support the --stdin option Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-11 17:53   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-12 12:57     ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-11 20:49   ` Jakub Narębski
2016-10-12 12:39     ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-11 18:34 ` [PATCH 0/2] Support `git reset --stdin` Jeff King
2016-10-11 19:27   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-11 21:26     ` Jeff King
2016-10-11 21:36       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-11 21:47         ` Jeff King
2016-10-11 21:49           ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-27 12:38 ` [PATCH v2 0/1] " Johannes Schindelin
2017-01-27 12:38   ` [PATCH v2 1/1] reset: support the --stdin option Johannes Schindelin
2017-01-27 17:04     ` Jeff King
2017-01-27 17:34       ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-01-27 17:54         ` Jeff King
2017-01-27 18:30       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-27 22:12         ` Jeff King
2017-01-28  0:20           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-01-27 17:30   ` [PATCH v3 0/1] Support `git reset --stdin` Johannes Schindelin
2017-01-27 17:30     ` [PATCH v3 1/1] reset: support the --stdin option Johannes Schindelin

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