From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve documentation for --dirstat diff option
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:29:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vwshww458.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <g9gdev$2un$1@ger.gmane.org> (Jakub Narebski's message of "Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:42:54 +0200")
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> Heikki Orsila wrote:
> ...
>> + can be set with "--dirstat=limit". Damage for a child directory is not
>> + counted for the parent directory, unless "--cumulative" is used.
>
> I rather prefer "impact" to "damage". And it should probably be
> "child directory _shown_".
The word "damage" did raise my eyebrow as well, even though I knew it came
from the wording of the variable to compute it, and coming from somebody
like Linus it somewhat sounds funny ;-) I was going to suggest using a
more neutral "change" in the end user documentation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-01 10:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-01 0:50 [PATCH] Improve documentation for --dirstat diff option Heikki Orsila
2008-09-01 9:42 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-01 10:29 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-09-01 10:34 ` Heikki Orsila
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2008-09-01 10:13 Heikki Orsila
2008-09-01 10:18 ` Abhijit Menon-Sen
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