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From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
To: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Aw: [PATCH 0/2] GIT, Git, git
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 12:56:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2x0xe2y.fsf@pctrast.inf.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <304952858.714413.1358671123163.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail06.arcor-online.net> (Thomas Ackermann's message of "Sun, 20 Jan 2013 09:38:43 +0100 (CET)")

Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> writes:

>> Git changed its 'official' system name from 'GIT' to 'Git' in v1.6.5.3
>> (as can be seen in the corresponding release note where 'GIT' was 
>> changed to 'Git' in the header line).
>> 
>> Alas the documention uses 'GIT', 'Git' or even 'git' to refer to the
>> Git system. So change every occurrence of 'GIT" and 'git' to 'Git'
>> whenever Git as a system is referred to (but don't do this change
>> in the release notes because they constitute a history orthogonal
>> to the history versioned by Git).
>> 
>> [PATCH 1/2] Change old system name 'GIT' to 'Git'
>> [PATCH 2/2] Change 'git' to 'Git' whenever the whole system is referred to
>> 
>
> My second patch somehow got lost in the mailing system (I suspect
> due to its size of >300kB). I will wait for some more comments
> and then do a reroll thereby splitting the second patch in smaller
> parts ...

For such big patches it also helps if you push them somewhere public,
and post the URL and branch name, so that interested parties can still
have a look.

But yes, vger.kernel.org silently discards all mail above 100KB, see

  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

in the last section.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch

      reply	other threads:[~2013-01-20 11:57 UTC|newest]

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2013-01-20  8:38 Aw: [PATCH 0/2] GIT, Git, git Thomas Ackermann
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