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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, johan@herland.net, josh@joshtriplett.org,
	tr@thomasrast.ch, mhagger@alum.mit.edu, dan.carpenter@oracle.com,
	greg@kroah.com, sunshine@sunshineco.com,
	ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 03/12] Move lower case functions into wrapper.c
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 18:56:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140327225658.GC32434@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqha6jcl96.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 03:47:01PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Actually, I think it ends up being hostile to the users to accept
> random cases without a good reason.  If you see two trailer elements
> whose where are specified as "after" and "AFTER" in somebody's
> configuration file, wouldn't that give a wrong impression that a new
> line with the latter somehow has a stronger desire to come later
> than the former?
> 
> If you consistently take only the fixed strings, you do not have to
> worry about many people writing the same things in different ways,
> confusing each other.

I do not agree with this line of reasoning at all. After all, do we have
confusion about the case differences between:

  [COLOR]
  diff = true

  [color]
  UI = false

But I also do not overly care. Literally zero people have complained
that "[log]date = RFC822" is not accepted, so it is probably not a big
deal either way.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-27 22:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-26 22:15 [PATCH v8 00/12] Add interpret-trailers builtin Christian Couder
2014-03-26 22:15 ` [PATCH v8 01/12] Add data structures and basic functions for commit trailers Christian Couder
2014-03-26 23:06   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-27  7:55     ` Christian Couder
2014-03-26 22:15 ` [PATCH v8 02/12] trailer: process trailers from stdin and arguments Christian Couder
2014-03-26 22:15 ` [PATCH v8 03/12] Move lower case functions into wrapper.c Christian Couder
2014-03-26 23:07   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-27  7:47     ` Christian Couder
2014-03-27 16:42       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-27 22:16         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-27 22:34           ` Jeff King
2014-03-27 22:47             ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-27 22:56               ` Jeff King [this message]
2014-03-28 17:12                 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-28 18:50                   ` Jeff King
2014-03-28  7:02             ` Christian Couder
2014-03-26 22:15 ` [PATCH v8 04/12] trailer: read and process config information Christian Couder
2014-03-26 22:15 ` [PATCH v8 05/12] trailer: process command line trailer arguments Christian Couder
2014-03-26 22:15 ` [PATCH v8 06/12] trailer: parse trailers from stdin Christian Couder
2014-03-26 22:15 ` [PATCH v8 07/12] trailer: put all the processing together and print Christian Couder
2014-03-26 22:15 ` [PATCH v8 08/12] trailer: add interpret-trailers command Christian Couder
2014-03-26 22:15 ` [PATCH v8 09/12] trailer: add tests for "git interpret-trailers" Christian Couder
2014-03-26 22:15 ` [PATCH v8 10/12] trailer: execute command from 'trailer.<name>.command' Christian Couder
2014-03-26 22:15 ` [PATCH v8 11/12] trailer: add tests for commands in config file Christian Couder
2014-03-26 22:15 ` [PATCH v8 12/12] Documentation: add documentation for 'git interpret-trailers' Christian Couder
2014-03-26 23:05 ` [PATCH v8 00/12] Add interpret-trailers builtin Junio C Hamano
2014-03-27  7:53   ` Christian Couder

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