From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Getting started contributing. Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2013 11:46:33 -0800 Message-ID: <7v1ucx9o4m.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1359872508519-7576834.post@n2.nabble.com> <7vd2whalax.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: adamfraser , git@vger.kernel.org To: Duy Nguyen X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Feb 03 20:47:02 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U25Wm-0005ZP-BF for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2013 20:47:00 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753495Ab3BCTqi (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Feb 2013 14:46:38 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:60368 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753431Ab3BCTqh (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Feb 2013 14:46:37 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA6D2C049; Sun, 3 Feb 2013 14:46:36 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=dxCaxvukGHlNuXMiULNsQGVEx80=; b=HzyPDe dIYgq3x4UVSDkNpqP5gFj17gG10ZXvFDFsUjB0o7G8fwZBVg3I0KWyQfo3x1eaWx o/Iqq+9cTLLxuBW6HByNS7kpWs2l+FTcfLS+NQinc3Lvl0jT/adeapysbIOLvgMb fXn+8j1MGUSMclkfYQ8Y2aq0paIm6JigeAl1Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=ePNj3NMI6u+DCugYetHgqCgExZyECmVy DZNJs3+B+cBdBRP8hD6nlDT5QAEH6ZqL2mub8iCgU79QwPLRz8utTH4RIHlQUa7I sQ51dqJD8RbcOwfOSoY77aP8NPfcN/xL7RXnaXzOxB2AG2789N1/2eanbz34X2jP 4SFKOw/EIn4= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE834C048; Sun, 3 Feb 2013 14:46:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [98.234.214.94]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 63D24C046; Sun, 3 Feb 2013 14:46:36 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Duy Nguyen's message of "Sun, 3 Feb 2013 16:54:57 +0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 6B6FA336-6E3A-11E2-B396-F0CE2E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Duy Nguyen writes: > On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Junio C Hamano 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.