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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>,
	Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>,
	Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Subject: Re: [GSoC update] Sequencer for inclusion
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:28:34 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <buo1uxwggh9.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110711171713.GA5963@elie>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
> To be precise, the format used includes
>
> 	strategy-option = patience | renormalize
>
> to represent the effect of "-Xpatience -Xrenormalize".  My only worry
> about that is that the "|" can sound like "or", which would seem
> strange to a user that does not necessarily develop software (so is
> not thinking about bitfields).

How about using "+" instead of "|"...?

I think that would make sense both for bitfield-thinking and
non-bitfield-thinking readers ... :]

-Miles

-- 
Occam's razor split hairs so well, I bought the whole argument!

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-12  6:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 99+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-11 14:53 [GSoC update] Sequencer for inclusion Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-11 14:53 ` [PATCH 01/17] advice: Introduce error_resolve_conflict Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-11 14:53 ` [PATCH 02/17] revert: Inline add_message_to_msg function Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-12 16:53   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-13  6:00     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-13  6:42       ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-19 16:36         ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-19 16:52           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-19 17:08             ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-19 19:36           ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-20  5:32             ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-11 14:53 ` [PATCH 03/17] revert: Don't check lone argument in get_encoding Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-12 16:59   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-13  6:14     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-13  6:30       ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-11 14:53 ` [PATCH 04/17] revert: Rename no_replay to record_origin Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-12 17:02   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-13  7:35     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-17 19:36       ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-11 14:53 ` [PATCH 05/17] revert: Propogate errors upwards from do_pick_commit Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-12 17:32   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-17 10:46     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-17 16:59       ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-19 10:09         ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-11 14:53 ` [PATCH 06/17] revert: Eliminate global "commit" variable Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-12 17:45   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-13  6:57     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-13  7:10       ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-13  8:33         ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-13 16:40           ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-11 14:53 ` [PATCH 07/17] revert: Introduce struct to keep command-line options Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-12 18:05   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-13  7:56     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-11 14:53 ` [PATCH 08/17] revert: Separate cmdline parsing from functional code Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-12 18:20   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-18 20:53     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-18 21:03       ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-11 14:54 ` [PATCH 09/17] revert: Don't create invalid replay_opts in parse_args Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-11 20:44   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-12  5:57     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-12 18:29   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-17 11:56     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-17 18:43       ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-11 14:54 ` [PATCH 10/17] sequencer: Announce sequencer state location Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-12 18:56   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-13 12:10     ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-07-17 16:23       ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-17 19:19         ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-18 19:44           ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-11 14:54 ` [PATCH 11/17] revert: Save data for continuing after conflict resolution Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-11 21:01   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-11 21:31     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-12  5:43     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-12 19:37   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-17 11:48     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-17 18:40       ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-18 19:31         ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-19 12:21           ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-19 12:34             ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-11 14:54 ` [PATCH 12/17] revert: Save command-line options for continuing operation Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-11 21:15   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-12  5:56     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-12 19:52   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-18 20:18     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-11 14:54 ` [PATCH 13/17] revert: Introduce a layer of indirection over pick_commits Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-12 20:03   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-18 21:24     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-11 14:54 ` [PATCH 14/17] reset: Make hard reset remove the sequencer state Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-12 20:15   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-17 16:40     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-11 14:54 ` [PATCH 15/17] revert: Remove sequencer state when no commits are pending Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-11 19:58   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-12  6:26     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-11 14:54 ` [PATCH 16/17] revert: Introduce --reset to remove sequencer state Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-12 20:30   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-17 17:10     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-17 19:25       ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-11 14:54 ` [PATCH 17/17] revert: Introduce --continue to continue the operation Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-12 20:46   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-17 16:11     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-17 18:32       ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-18 20:00         ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-18 20:09           ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-11 17:17 ` [GSoC update] Sequencer for inclusion Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-11 17:57   ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-11 20:05     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-11 20:11     ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-12  7:05     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-11 20:07   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-11 22:14     ` Jeff King
2011-07-12  6:41       ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-12  6:47         ` Jeff King
2011-07-13  9:41           ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-13 19:07             ` Jeff King
2011-07-18 21:37               ` [RFC PATCH] config: Introduce functions to write non-standard file Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-18 23:54                 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-19  8:52                   ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-12  5:58     ` [GSoC update] Sequencer for inclusion Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-12  6:28   ` Miles Bader [this message]

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