From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Julia Evans" <julia@jvns.ca>
Cc: "Julia Evans" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "D. Ben Knoble" <ben.knoble@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: git-diff: rewrite EXAMPLES section
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2026 13:42:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq5wyd6193.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ff8c1473-aaf0-4737-9ddc-5275e6ef70a2@app.fastmail.com> (Julia Evans's message of "Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:45:22 -0500")
"Julia Evans" <julia@jvns.ca> writes:
> It's very hard to understand from the Git history the reasons for
> adding examples that were added 20 years ago, for example
> in 803f498c03b where these were added, especially since the commit
> messages from 20 years ago tend to be a lot more terse.
Sure. But that is why you send patches here to invite people to
comment on.
> I do hear that AUTO_MERGE was added more recently.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-03 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-03 15:33 [PATCH] doc: git-diff: rewrite EXAMPLES section Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2026-11-03 17:16 ` Julia Evans
2026-11-03 19:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-11-03 19:52 ` Julia Evans
2026-11-03 20:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-11-03 20:45 ` Julia Evans
2026-11-03 21:42 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2026-11-05 15:40 ` [PATCH v2] " Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2026-11-05 16:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-11-05 18:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-11-05 17:23 ` Tuomas Ahola
2026-11-05 19:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-11-05 19:46 ` Junio C Hamano
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