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From: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Unification of user message strings
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:33:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F687905.6070200@lyx.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m339934h39.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

>>
>> It seems that the terms "Porcelain" and "plumbing" seems to be mixed
>> up somewhere.
>>
>>   From 'git help status': "PORCELAIN FORMAT: The porcelain format is
>> similar to the short format, but is guaranteed not to change in a
>> backwards-incompatible way between git versions or based on user
>> configuration. This makes it ideal for parsing by scripts".
> The '--porcelain' option means "intended *for* parsing by porcelain",
> not that it is 'porcelain' output.

I've a hard time to interpret the quote above in the way you explain. 
Maybe a little improvement to this description would be helpful.

>
> HTH

Thanks.

Vincent

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-20 12:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-19 17:51 [PATCH 0/2] Unify the style of user messages Vincent van Ravesteijn
2012-03-19 17:51 ` [PATCH 1/2] Unification of user message strings Vincent van Ravesteijn
2012-03-19 19:39   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-19 20:16     ` Vincent van Ravesteijn
2012-03-19 20:53   ` Jeff King
2012-03-19 21:36     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-20  7:47       ` Vincent van Ravesteijn
2012-03-20 12:01         ` Jakub Narebski
2012-03-20 12:33           ` Vincent van Ravesteijn [this message]
2012-03-19 17:51 ` [PATCH 2/2] Make some strings translatable Vincent van Ravesteijn

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