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From:   Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To:     Victor Toni <victor.toni@gmail.com>
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        Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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Victor Toni <victor.toni@gmail.com> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>>
>> Victor Toni <victor.toni@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Personally I would like to see your approach (1,2,3) implemented
>> > because it is not destructive. If the user wants to achieve something
>> > different he can retry.
>>
>> Obviously I agree that the approach would be nicer than the status
>> quo.  It would not be as trivial as a microproject, but would be a
>> good bite-sized starter-task for those aspiring developers who want
>> to dip their toes in the water to start hacking on the codebase ;-)
>>
> Nice try ;)

For the record I didn't try _you_.

I was writing for general audience, among which there are aspiring
developers seeking a starter-task.  Whether you are part of that
audience was immaterial (even though it would have been nice if you
were) ;-).

Thanks.