From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH] fast-import: Cleanup mode setting.
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:29:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090114022933.GX10179@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901140326530.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> >
> > It cleans up the code to make it more readable.
> >
> > It makes no sense to be doing S_IFREG | S_IFLINK, which happens when
> > the input is for a symlink. It doesn't break anything to do that |
> > operation, but it also looks damn odd when reading the function.
>
> Imagining myself reading the commit message 6 months from now, in all
> likeliness I will have wished that those two paragraphs were in there.
> Verbatim.
Maybe Junio or Felipe can copy it into the message.
Or you can use a git note now to attach it to the commit Junio
hasn't yet created, so you can look it up in the future. :-)
--
Shawn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-14 2:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-14 1:37 [RESEND PATCH] fast-import: Cleanup mode setting Felipe Contreras
2009-01-14 2:08 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-14 2:17 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-01-14 2:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-14 2:29 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2009-01-14 2:46 ` Felipe Contreras
2009-01-14 2:51 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-01-14 2:16 ` Shawn O. Pearce
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