From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
To: Mark Rada <marada@uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/3] gitweb: make suspenders more useful
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:48:45 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A91C74D.1080908@vilain.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A91C512.7000707@mailservices.uwaterloo.ca>
Mark Rada wrote:
>>> Subject: [RFC/PATCH 1/3] gitweb: make suspenders more useful
>>>
>> Suspenders? Really?
>>
> Context:
>
> On 21/08/09 5:43 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> I do not mind keeping these two lines as belt-and-suspender, though.
>>
> Yup...I couldn't think of an appropriate title and I expect this
> patch to be edited (for another reason) or thrown out anyways.
>
Please don't do that. Use of metaphors makes the code harder to follow,
especially for non-native speakers. In this case you confused me, a
British/NZ native speaker because you only used half of the idiom; so
all I was left with was a word which in the English where I speak refers
to a piece of clothing worn most often by prostitutes and people at the
Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Can I suggest "snapshot error handling" as a more neutral term...
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-23 22:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-23 21:53 [RFC/PATCH 1/3] gitweb: make suspenders more useful Mark Rada
2009-08-23 22:10 ` Sam Vilain
2009-08-23 22:39 ` Mark Rada
2009-08-23 22:48 ` Sam Vilain [this message]
2009-08-24 3:09 ` [RFC/PATCH 1/3] gitweb: improve snapshot error handling Mark Rada
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