From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 0/8] docs: use metavariables consistently
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 02:49:08 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101218084908.GE6187@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1292650725-21149-1-git-send-email-lodatom@gmail.com>
Mark Lodato wrote:
> The biggest change is to drop the <tree-ish> and
> <commit-ish> (or <committish>) notation and just use <tree> or <commit>, since
> every command but commit-tree accepts tree-ishes and commit-ishes.
Thanks. I think this will encourage UI consistency ("where you accept
a tree, accepts commits and tags, too") as a side effect.
> This is a rework of my earlier patch set from March [1], with the following
> differences:
>
> - Drop the patch to commit-tree that makes it accept a tree-ish.
Ah, missed this before. It is not clear to me why this difference ---
is it just to be conservative about changing behavior?
> [1] http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2010/3/13/25484
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/142078
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-18 8:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-18 5:38 [PATCHv2 0/8] docs: use metavariables consistently Mark Lodato
2010-12-18 5:38 ` [PATCH 1/8] fsck docs: remove outdated and useless diagnostic Mark Lodato
2010-12-18 5:38 ` [PATCH 2/8] docs: use `...' instead of `*' for multiplicity Mark Lodato
2010-12-18 10:00 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-18 16:32 ` Mark Lodato
2010-12-18 5:38 ` [PATCH 3/8] docs: use <sha1> to mean unabbreviated ID Mark Lodato
2010-12-18 7:47 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-12-18 18:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-18 5:38 ` [PATCH 4/8] http-fetch docs: use <commit-id> consistently Mark Lodato
2010-12-18 7:51 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-12-18 5:38 ` [PATCH 5/8] grep docs: grep accepts a <tree-ish>, not a <tree> Mark Lodato
2010-12-18 5:38 ` [PATCH 6/8] docs: use <tree> instead of <tree-ish> Mark Lodato
2010-12-18 8:35 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-12-18 5:38 ` [PATCH 7/8] docs: use <commit> instead of <commit-ish> Mark Lodato
2010-12-18 8:39 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-12-18 5:38 ` [PATCH 8/8] describe docs: note that <commit> is optional Mark Lodato
2010-12-18 8:49 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-12-18 16:45 ` [PATCHv2 0/8] docs: use metavariables consistently Mark Lodato
2010-12-18 20:27 ` Junio C Hamano
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