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From: Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: chriscool@tuxfamily.org, pascal@obry.net, nanako3@bluebottle.com,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] help: use man viewer path from "man.<tool>.path" config var
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 02:00:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803210100.m2L10Emt031103@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vabkv7t4c.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (message from Junio C Hamano on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:02:43 -0700)


   As a general rule, if you allow the user to explicitly say "instead of
   what you would normally use, use _this_", you should not try to outsmart
   the user by using something else that you derived from that "_this_" the
   user gave you.

I second that.

	Xavier
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-21  1:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-18  5:22 [PATCH 1/2] help: use man viewer path from "man.<tool>.path" config var Christian Couder
2008-03-18 19:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-20  7:49   ` Christian Couder
2008-03-20 16:51     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-21  7:23       ` Christian Couder
2008-03-21  8:56         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-25  6:19           ` Christian Couder
2008-03-25  6:45             ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-26 23:42               ` Christian Couder
2008-03-23  1:00         ` Xavier Maillard
2008-03-21  1:00   ` Xavier Maillard [this message]

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