From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ed Cashin Subject: Re: What is not in git.git Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 09:02:15 -0500 Message-ID: <20090205140215.GB20348@coraid.com> References: <20090205054918.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> <7vy6wllswz.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Nanako Shiraishi , git@vger.kernel.org, arjen@yaph.org, joey@kitenet.net, benny.kra@googlemail.com, pw@padd.com, simon@lst.de, jidanni@jidanni.org, dirker@gmail.com, hoxu@users.sf.net To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 05 15:03:18 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LV4oY-0003yu-5r for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:02:46 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755284AbZBEOBT (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 09:01:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754343AbZBEOBT (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 09:01:19 -0500 Received: from ns1.co-raid.com ([12.51.113.4]:51176 "EHLO coraid.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754260AbZBEOBS (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 09:01:18 -0500 Received: from kokone.coraid.com ([68.16.104.79]) by coraid.com; Thu Feb 5 09:01:06 EST 2009 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vy6wllswz.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 02:49:00PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Nanako Shiraishi writes: ... > > 1. From: ecashin@coraid.com > > Subject: [PATCH] git-describe documentation: --match pattern is glob > > Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:21:53 -0500 > > Message-ID: > > > > I thought this was correct, but was missing a sign-off. Perhaps it was > > dropped on the floor because it was sent in a wrong format that is > > harder to apply? > > Mostly correct, but because we consider refnames like filesystem paths and > the use of globs when matching them is shared as the same basic design > across commands, I do not think the manual page for each individual > command is the right place to say it. I can add a sign-off if that would help, but it sounds like it was the wrong fix. I didn't know the right place to say it, but I figure: If there is a right place, then what is it? If there isn't one, saying it in the git-describe manpage is probably a good step for now. -- Ed Cashin