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From: Heikki Orsila <shdl@zakalwe.fi>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve documentation for --dirstat diff option
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 13:34:01 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080901103401.GC16289@zakalwe.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vwshww458.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 03:29:23AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> The word "damage" did raise my eyebrow as well, even though I knew it came
> from the wording of the variable to compute it, and coming from somebody
> like Linus it somewhat sounds funny ;-)

I rather liked the term "damage", but changed it :) "Impact" also has 
the semantic meaning of high-level consequences, like "impact" of a
scientific publication.

-- 
Heikki Orsila
heikki.orsila@iki.fi
http://www.iki.fi/shd

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-01 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-01  0:50 [PATCH] Improve documentation for --dirstat diff option Heikki Orsila
2008-09-01  9:42 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-01 10:29   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-01 10:34     ` Heikki Orsila [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-09-01 10:13 Heikki Orsila
2008-09-01 10:18 ` Abhijit Menon-Sen

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