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From: "Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>,
	Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff,difftool: Don't use the {0,2} notation in usage strings
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:30:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878w18hj3y.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101104204304.GA4641@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu, 4 Nov 2010 16:43:04 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> My main argument against that would be that if we are planning on
> changing it to something totally different right now anyway, your patch
> will just end up making textual conflicts for Junio to resolve. :)

Right. I hoped you'd come up with a patch yourself, which now happend,
so, thank you. :-)

> Yeah, sorry to come in late to the discussion. I missed the other thread
> entirely. I think getting rid of {M,N} is fine. In general, your
> proposed replacement is better. It's just that in this case it seemed to
> be obfuscating a subtle point that the original syntax (as ugly and
> incomprehensible as it was) called out.
>
> So yes, go ahead with your coding guidelines patch. I'll summarize what
> Jonathan and I discussed with a new patch.

In that case the v2 [1] is still a valid review target, thanks.

Štěpán

[1] Earlier in the thread and here for anyone interested:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/160733

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-04 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-08  0:52 [PATCH/RFC] Unify argument and option notation in the docs Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08  7:43 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-08 11:13   ` Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 17:31     ` [PATCH 0/6] " Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 17:44       ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-08 19:43       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-08 20:15         ` Štěpán Němec
2010-10-21 22:21           ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-24 15:51             ` [PATCH] CodingGuidelines: Add a section on writing documentation Štěpán Němec
2010-10-29  2:56               ` Mark Lodato
2010-10-29 11:54                 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-10-29 17:14                   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-11-01 17:00                     ` Štěpán Němec
2010-11-04 17:12                       ` [PATCH v2] " Štěpán Němec
2010-11-04 17:18                       ` [PATCH] diff,difftool: Don't use the {0,2} notation in usage strings Štěpán Němec
2010-11-04 17:22                         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-11-04 17:49                         ` Jeff King
2010-11-04 18:02                           ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-11-04 18:13                             ` Jeff King
2010-11-04 18:38                               ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-11-04 18:55                                 ` Jeff King
2010-11-04 20:26                                   ` Štěpán Němec
2010-11-04 20:43                                     ` Jeff King
2010-11-04 21:17                                       ` [PATCH] docs: clarify git diff modes of operation Jeff King
2010-11-04 21:50                                         ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-11-05  1:57                                           ` Mark Lodato
2010-11-04 21:51                                         ` Štěpán Němec
2010-11-04 21:30                                       ` Štěpán Němec [this message]
2010-10-08 17:31     ` [PATCH 1/6] Use angles for placeholders consistently Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 17:31     ` [PATCH 2/6] Fix odd markup in --diff-filter documentation Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 17:39       ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-08 17:57         ` Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 18:03           ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-08 18:40             ` Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 18:53               ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-08 17:31     ` [PATCH 3/6] Use parentheses and `...' where appropriate Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 17:31     ` [PATCH 4/6] Remove stray quotes in --pretty and --format documentation Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 17:31     ` [PATCH 5/6] Put a space between `<' and argument in pack-objects usage string Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 17:31     ` [PATCH 6/6] Fix {update,checkout}-index usage strings Štěpán Němec
2010-10-08 16:45   ` [PATCH 0/2] pack-objects: use ALLOC_GROW in place of manual growth Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-08 16:46     ` [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: No argument of ALLOC_GROW should have side-effects Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-08 16:47     ` [PATCH 2/2] pack-objects: use ALLOC_GROW Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-08 17:02     ` [PATCH 3/2] Allow side-effects in second argument to ALLOC_GROW Jonathan Nieder

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