From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Call Me Gitless
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:43:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v1w0k3i5g.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080819175220.GA10142@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:52:20 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 08:22:19PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> I do not know if I like the end result, but here is a patch to make the
>> traditional a/ and b/ prefix more mnemonic.
>
> Hmm. Something deep in my gut doesn't like this, just because I like the
> fact that no matter how I prepare a diff (and I do tend to do it
> different ways and post to the mailing list) it always ends up the same.
I had the exact same reaction when I prepared and sent the patch with i/
and w/ prefixes. I'm trying to see if that "deep in my gut" feeling is
merely coming from my being very used to see a/ vs b/ or something more
fundamental, even though my working hypothesis is that I'll get used to
it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-19 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-18 0:02 Call Me Gitless Trans
2008-08-18 0:28 ` Benjamin Sergeant
2008-08-18 0:40 ` Martin Langhoff
2008-08-18 8:50 ` Pascal Obry
2008-08-18 16:43 ` Jon Loeliger
2008-08-18 19:22 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-08-18 20:17 ` Marcus Griep
2008-08-18 20:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-18 21:31 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-08-18 22:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-18 23:12 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-08-19 3:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-19 3:55 ` Marcus Griep
2008-08-19 6:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-19 7:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-20 8:00 ` [PATCH v2] diff: vary default prefix depending on what are compared Junio C Hamano
2008-08-20 9:06 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-08-19 6:28 ` Call Me Gitless Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-08-19 11:42 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-08-19 18:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-19 17:52 ` Jeff King
2008-08-19 18:39 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-08-19 18:45 ` Jeff King
2008-08-19 18:57 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-08-19 19:01 ` Jeff King
2008-08-19 19:42 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-08-19 20:33 ` Petr Baudis
2008-08-19 21:49 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-08-19 19:43 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-08-19 7:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-19 19:22 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-08-21 3:40 ` Sverre Hvammen Johansen
2008-08-21 8:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-21 8:43 ` [PATCH 1/3] sha1_object_info(): pay attention to cached objects Junio C Hamano
2008-08-21 8:43 ` [PATCH 2/3] cached_object: learn empty blob Junio C Hamano
2008-08-21 8:44 ` [PATCH 3/3] git-add --intent-to-add (-N) Junio C Hamano
2008-08-21 14:23 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-08-21 21:14 ` Jonathan Nieder
2008-08-22 4:10 ` Jonathan Nieder
2008-08-22 4:34 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-08-22 4:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-22 5:32 ` Jonathan Nieder
2008-08-22 5:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-22 6:38 ` Jonathan Nieder
2008-08-22 7:52 ` Jonathan Nieder
2008-08-21 13:58 ` Call Me Gitless Daniel Barkalow
2008-08-18 23:24 ` Tarmigan
2008-08-19 0:32 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-08-19 0:45 ` Tarmigan
2008-08-19 7:53 ` "Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists)"
2008-08-19 8:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-19 8:10 ` Imran M Yousuf
2008-08-19 8:26 ` "Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists)"
2008-08-19 8:53 ` Imran M Yousuf
2008-08-19 8:57 ` Alexander E Genaud
2008-08-19 9:11 ` Matthieu Moy
2008-08-19 9:36 ` Mike Hommey
2008-08-19 10:09 ` Alexander E Genaud
2008-08-19 11:27 ` Pascal Obry
2008-08-21 14:15 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-08-22 19:10 ` Elijah Newren
2008-08-19 10:16 ` "Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists)"
2008-08-19 11:31 ` Mark Struberg
2008-08-19 12:04 ` Alexander E Genaud
2008-08-19 18:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-19 8:56 ` Teemu Likonen
2008-08-19 13:15 ` Jakub Narebski
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