Re: [PATCH 7/8] CodingGuidelines: on comparison

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 11:18:34AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 02:45:11PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >> See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/3903/focus=4126
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> >
> > Don't you often complain about submitters referencing a discussion
> > in a commit message without providing some context or summary?
> 
> Yes, but the summary of the discussion would be identical to the new
> text added by the patch to the documentation tree in this case, so I
> didn't find a good introductory text before "See $URL".  Perhaps
> 
>     This comes up from time to time.  See $URL for the original
>     discussion.
> 
> but I do not know if that is much better.

I meant something even less in-depth. Your message says only "on
comparison", and I did not even know what "this" in your sentence above
would mean until I followed the link.

  There are arguments for writing a conditional as "a < b" rather than
  "b > a", or vice versa. Let's give guidance on which we prefer.

Not a big deal, but I think it is easy when you have just written the
patch to forget that a reviewer or a reader of "git log" six months have
no has no context at all.

-Peff