From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: adamfraser <adamfraser0@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Getting started contributing.
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2013 11:46:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v1ucx9o4m.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8AYOAwLKufQ34brk1agyFAX9xjgAE9_LAcRx=RGxcEZzg@mail.gmail.com> (Duy Nguyen's message of "Sun, 3 Feb 2013 16:54:57 +0700")
Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On the other hand, there probably still are many loose ends.
>
> A few other things
>
> - Mark more strings for translation (not as easy as it sounds, some
> strings can't be translated)
True, but not a good advice for somebody new, exactly for the reason
you stated, i.e. some strings must not be translated.
> - Color more in the output where it makes sense
Eeek.
> - Stop/Warn the user from updating HEAD (e.g. checkout another
> branch) while in the middle of a rebase (some makes sense, most is by
> mistake)
Perhaps, but again probably not for somebody new who hasn't mastered
various workflows and understood why it may make sense to allow it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-03 19:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-03 6:21 Getting started contributing adamfraser
2013-02-03 7:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-04 13:37 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-02-03 7:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-03 9:54 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-03 19:46 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-02-04 8:42 ` adamfraser
2013-02-03 13:34 ` Philip Oakley
2013-02-04 13:19 ` Matthieu Moy
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