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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use fast-forward
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:17:47 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <94a0d4530910240717i7c8fe973w2623d095daf04ca6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091024220709.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> wrote:
> Quoting Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
>
>> As suggested in the mailing list, now I've replaced all instances of 'fast
>> forward' with 'fast-forward'.
>
> I had an impression that the consensus from the previous
> discussion was that there is no such consensus that this
> is an improvement, because there isn't a clear-cut rule?

I don't think anyone wants to preserve the current inconsistent use,
and I haven't seen arguments in favor of 'fast forward' either. My
understanding was that the comments were in favor of 'fast-forward'
but making it consistent across the code-base:

http://marc.info/?l=git&m=125532404330701&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=git&m=125535210203730&w=2

-- 
Felipe Contreras

      reply	other threads:[~2009-10-24 14:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-24  8:31 [PATCH] Use fast-forward Felipe Contreras
2009-10-24  8:31 ` [PATCH] Use 'fast-forward' all over the place Felipe Contreras
2009-10-24 17:50   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-24 19:12     ` Felipe Contreras
2009-10-24 19:44       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-25  8:56         ` Felipe Contreras
2009-10-25  3:41   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-25  7:15     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-25  7:19       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-25  7:22         ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-25  9:06       ` Felipe Contreras
2009-10-25  9:02     ` Felipe Contreras
2009-10-24 13:07 ` [PATCH] Use fast-forward Nanako Shiraishi
2009-10-24 14:17   ` Felipe Contreras [this message]

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