From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Simplify '--prett=xyz' options
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:29:33 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0908151422140.3162@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32541b130908151405j661cde8fh9783e91cebf1e398@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, Avery Pennarun wrote:
>
> I'm guessing that "after header" was just an implementation error. It
> was presumably intended to be "after commit", so that the only
> difference between format and tformat is the presence or absence of
> the very last terminator.
>
> Maybe the correct fix is just to make tformat not broken?
I do agree. 'tformat' is broken. But my point was more that 'tformat' was
introduced for all the wrong reasons (ie that 'format' was broken, and
then instead of fixing 'format', people introduced 'tformat' with a
_different_ brokenness).
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-15 21:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-15 19:01 Simplify '--prett=xyz' options Linus Torvalds
2009-08-15 19:19 ` Thomas Rast
2009-08-15 19:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-15 20:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-15 20:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-15 21:05 ` Avery Pennarun
2009-08-15 21:29 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2009-08-15 21:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-15 20:22 ` Johannes Schindelin
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