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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>, Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce %<branch> as shortcut to the tracked branch
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:34:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vr60ubgul.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903182245280.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:46:22 +0100 (CET)")

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Suggested by Pasky.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

In the longer term who suggested matters much less than why such a feature
is desirable, how it is used, and without it what is impossible and/or
cumbersome.  What's the motivation behind this?

You do not have to explain it to me, but you should explain it to the
history that records this commit, and to the users who read doccos.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-18 22:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200903181448.50706.agruen@suse.de>
2009-03-18 18:26 ` Git {log,diff} against tracked branch? Petr Baudis
2009-03-18 21:12   ` [PATCH] Introduce %<branch> as shortcut to the tracked branch Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-18 21:41     ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2009-03-18 21:46     ` [PATCH v2] " Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-18 21:58       ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2009-03-18 22:43         ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-18 22:34       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-03-18 22:46         ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-19 14:52           ` Michael J Gruber
2009-03-19 15:17             ` Michael J Gruber
2009-03-20  0:23           ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20  0:38             ` ref name troubles, was " Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20  0:40               ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-03-20  0:44                 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-03-20  5:59                   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-03-20  9:29                   ` [PATCH v3] Introduce BEL<branch> " Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20  9:42                     ` Wincent Colaiuta
2009-03-20  9:54                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 12:33                         ` Santi Béjar
2009-03-20 12:45                           ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2009-03-20 13:05                             ` Matthieu Moy
2009-03-20 12:46                           ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 12:53                             ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-03-20 14:00                               ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 10:04                     ` [PATCH] Document and test the new % shotcut for " Michael J Gruber
2009-03-20 10:31                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 10:38                         ` Michael J Gruber
2009-03-20 11:16                         ` Petr Baudis
2009-03-20 11:48                           ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-22 17:40                             ` Petr Baudis
2009-03-20 14:15                         ` Michael J Gruber
2009-03-20 16:17                     ` [PATCH v4] Introduce %<branch> as shortcut to " Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 17:03                       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-20 17:32                         ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 18:02                         ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-20 19:36                           ` Jeff King
2009-03-20 20:28                             ` Julian Phillips
2009-03-20 20:50                               ` Jeff King
2009-03-20 23:08                         ` Julian Phillips
2009-03-20 23:20                           ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-03-20 23:41                             ` Julian Phillips
2009-03-20 23:45                               ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-03-21  0:35                           ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2009-03-21  1:10                             ` Miles Bader
2009-03-21 13:24                             ` Julian Phillips
2009-03-21 13:28                               ` Julian Phillips
2009-03-20 17:08                       ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-03-20  6:05                 ` ref name troubles, was Re: [PATCH v2] " Jeff King
2009-03-20  6:57                   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-20  9:30                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 11:12                       ` Petr Baudis
2009-03-20 11:46                         ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 11:50                           ` Petr Baudis
2009-03-20 11:57                             ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 14:31                               ` Michael J Gruber
2009-03-20 15:01                                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 15:12                                   ` Michael J Gruber
2009-03-20 16:47                         ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-20 19:34                           ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-03-20 21:48                             ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-21 21:00                 ` Junio C Hamano

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