From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Riesen Subject: Re: trivial: remove the dots at the end of file names Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 11:32:02 +0100 Message-ID: <20060107103202.GC5536@steel.home> References: <81b0412b0601050346v43dc1e58k7e0b51c6d6817d1e@mail.gmail.com> <7vu0chrniz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Reply-To: Alex Riesen Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jan 07 11:32:17 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EvBMr-0005al-W9 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:32:14 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030397AbWAGKcK (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 05:32:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030398AbWAGKcK (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 05:32:10 -0500 Received: from devrace.com ([198.63.210.113]:29192 "EHLO devrace.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030397AbWAGKcJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 05:32:09 -0500 Received: from tigra.home (p54A073FD.dip.t-dialin.net [84.160.115.253]) (authenticated bits=0) by devrace.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k07AW6n8045302; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 04:32:07 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from fork0@users.sourceforge.net) Received: from steel.home ([192.168.1.2]) by tigra.home with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1EvBMg-0000EF-00; Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:32:02 +0100 Received: from raa by steel.home with local (Exim 4.42 #1 (Debian)) id 1EvBMg-0001WV-Qy; Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:32:02 +0100 To: Junio C Hamano Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vu0chrniz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.9 required=4.5 tests=AWL,RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=no version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on devrace.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano, Fri, Jan 06, 2006 23:37:24 +0100: > Alex Riesen writes: > > > Subject: [PATCH] Remove the dots at the end of file names > > to make the output more mouse copy-paste friendly. > > > - echo "ERROR: Merge conflict in $4." > > + echo "ERROR: Merge conflict in $4" > > Hmph. I think there are places we state pathname within 'single > quotes' as a part of sentence, which may have the same issue. No-no-no! These are perfectly fine (for bash, at least)! > I understand and am sympathetic to the motivation, but at the same > time messages that do not end with full-stop somehow make me feel > quite uneasy. I'll swallow the patch; maybe it is just me. I hope so. Don't you ever use mouse copy-pasting?!