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Tue, 3 Nov 2026 11:04:56 -0500 (EST) From: Junio C Hamano To: Patrick Steinhardt Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Phillip Wood Subject: Re: Ejecting things more aggressively out of 'seen'? In-Reply-To: (Patrick Steinhardt's message of "Tue, 3 Nov 2026 08:30:27 +0100") References: <414ebe62-c7f6-4d44-bde2-b689e35accfc@gmail.com> <47bd0302-fc52-4df0-98a0-6fad7eb0fb05@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2026 08:04:55 -0800 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Patrick Steinhardt writes: > The question that newcomers often have here is whether they need to do > anything about this. They basically wonder whether that question is > directed at them specifically. Maybe rewording it to "Will merge to next > [on ] unless told otherwise" may help clarify? That is quite a mouthful and [on ] is harder to automate, so I'd probably keep the '?' and describe what it means near the top, where I already talk about what it means to be in 'next' etc.