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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prev 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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