From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Andy Parkins Subject: Re: Topic descriptions Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 08:37:13 +0000 Message-ID: <200612070837.16412.andyparkins@gmail.com> References: <200612062153.30639.andyparkins@gmail.com> <7v4ps8y7un.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 08:40:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Junio C Hamano Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=bfNVmR5dEhlxR80XGvW80TZ1wEw/Kp8MsN4jMsJ+hjeX/kC1DsIjPZoF3FS1pi7q9+IJyDQfcVlzOMGOAHYPFtkB5kgh88pFV058JPbRC4lPJQposSI0VL5sPQMmoIkV0IRP3nK69JkIdGl94dI2U8BDKs+XGiS04rObA+LZwUg= User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 In-Reply-To: <7v4ps8y7un.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Content-Disposition: inline Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GsEng-0002gy-VK for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:40:17 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031856AbWLGIkL (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Dec 2006 03:40:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031857AbWLGIkL (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Dec 2006 03:40:11 -0500 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.236]:63696 "EHLO nz-out-0102.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031856AbWLGIkI (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Dec 2006 03:40:08 -0500 Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id s1so293373nze for ; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:40:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.193.16 with SMTP id v16mr3141026qbp.1165480807656; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:40:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from grissom.internal.parkins.org.uk ( [84.201.153.164]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id c6sm454491qbc.2006.12.07.00.40.05; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:40:06 -0800 (PST) To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 2006, December 06 22:31, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I am unlikely to use such a thing for the "What's in" message, > though. The part that talks about "what the current status is" > is much easier to write when I need to talk about "the current"; > otherwise I'd be forced to remember to think if I need to update > the information, every time I touch topic branches. It wasn't so much the what's current - as you say that would be fairly ridiculous as it's so fluid. It was more a description of the topic. I've got tonnes of branches where I have quickly thought of an idea and started work on it, only to get bored and move on. Describing a topic in such a short space as "ap/short-name" is hard. The actual place it's stored isn't really relevant, more that I could see a use for it. If it's going in the config I suppose all it needs is a magic "and so it shall be" hand wave. It doesn't require any new code does it? Andy -- Dr Andrew Parkins, M Eng (Hons), AMIEE