From: Mark Dominus <mjd@icgroup.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] document 'T' status from git-status
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:04:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EAEAAE5.30209@icgroup.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vpqhdrdys.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
> It is trivial if
Yes, it was very stupid of me to miss that.
> I dunno.
>
> An obvious alternative is to add T next to all occurrences of M in the
> table where we say "M is possible", but unless it is accompanied by an
> explanation "T is just a special case of M", I suspect the resulting
> description would be harder to understand than currently is, and as long
> as the reader understands "T is just a special case of M", then there
> isn't much point adding T everywhere M appears in the table anyway, so...
If you are suggesting that the patch you gave is preferable to actually
including T in the table, then I agree. Your patch is also better than
what I sent because it includes the unusual word "filetype", which the
user is likely to search for after seeing it in the git-status output.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-31 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-30 0:06 [PATCH] document 'T' status from git-status Mark Dominus
2011-10-30 6:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-30 20:34 ` Mark Dominus
2011-10-31 4:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-31 14:04 ` Mark Dominus [this message]
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