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From: "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Re: [PATCH 3/4] t: rev-parse-parents: avoid yoda conditions
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 09:11:43 +0100
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From: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2013 5:06 AM
> Was there some objective argument made that I missed?
> 
>> Here's more; human semantics:
>> 

Isn't this one of those "pick any two from three" tasks:
     'human', 'objective', 'argument'.

Only 1/6 of the time is an 'objective' answer the result. 

Philip
"Between thee and me there's nowt so queer as fowk,
and I ain't so sure about thee." old Yorkshire saying.