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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	"Robert P . J . Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] deprecate git stash save
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 15:26:11 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqh8uqbcsc.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171023051850.vil3p5pmu3jb2a5y@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon, 23 Oct 2017 01:18:51 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 10:19:38AM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> > -	This option is deprecated in favour of 'git stash push'.
>> > +	This option is deprecated in favour of 'git stash push'.  It
>> > +	differs from "stash push" in that it cannot take pathspecs,
>> > +	and any non-option arguments form the message.
>> 
>> Every time I saw this line, I misread s/form/from/ and got
>> confused.
>
> We could reverse the order:
>
>    ...and the message is taken from any non-option arguments.

Yeah, that makes it slightly less confusing.  Or "any non-option
arguments become the message", perhaps?  I dunno.

Let's queue the version as posted; perhaps somebody new comes and
says it is confusing in three months, at which time we may be able
to come up with a better phrasing with a fresh mind ;-)


  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-23  6:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-05 20:00 [RFC] deprecate git stash save? (was: Re: [PATCH 2/3] http-push: fix construction of hex value from path) Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-05 20:10 ` [PATCH 2/1] mention git stash push first in the man page Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-17  4:14   ` Jeff King
2017-10-17 21:45     ` Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-17 21:47       ` Jeff King
2017-10-19 18:08         ` Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-20  8:04           ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-10-21  6:20             ` Jeff King
2017-10-21  6:43               ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-10-12  0:56 ` [RFC] deprecate git stash save? Junio C Hamano
2017-10-12 11:14   ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-16 18:19     ` Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-17  4:13 ` [RFC] deprecate git stash save? (was: Re: [PATCH 2/3] http-push: fix construction of hex value from path) Jeff King
2017-10-17 21:47   ` Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-19 18:33 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] replace git stash save with git stash push in the documentation Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-19 18:33   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] mark git stash push deprecated in the man page Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-21  6:28     ` Jeff King
2017-10-22 16:31       ` Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-22 17:04     ` [PATCH v3 0/3] deprecate git stash save Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-22 17:04       ` [PATCH v3 1/3] replace git stash save with git stash push in the documentation Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-22 17:04       ` [PATCH v3 2/3] mark git stash push deprecated in the man page Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-22 17:04       ` [PATCH v3 3/3] stash: remove now superfluos help for "stash push" Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-23  0:39       ` [PATCH v3 0/3] deprecate git stash save Jeff King
2017-10-23  1:19       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-23  5:18         ` Jeff King
2017-10-23  6:26           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-10-23  5:47         ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-10-23  1:32       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-21  6:26   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] replace git stash save with git stash push in the documentation Jeff King
2017-10-22 16:28     ` Thomas Gummerer

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