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From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>,
	Greg Brockman <gdb@mit.edu>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com, Jens.Lehmann@web.de
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Add test case for dealing with a tracked file in an ignored directory
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:24:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikLUQCnrDAp8c0QBWoGE1XUgXmd8g_19v3HnxJ4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100819000052.GA11081@burratino>

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 00:00, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Matthieu Moy wrote:
>
>> Not sure what is the gain by doing so, and the vast majority of tests
>> already there use the style of Greg's patch ...
>
> Right.  The usual rule when contributing to an existing project is
> "imitate the surruounding code", but there is often a tension between
> global style guidelines and the local conventions.
>
> In this case I have to agree with Matthieu: the test script is
> easier to read if it follows a single, consistent style.  The cleanup
> can happen another day.

Sure, I don't feel in any way strongly about it. I just try to
(hopefully mostly helpfully) to point out common things that
contradict the docs we have, especially with the tests, since I'm
getting pretty familiar with them :)

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-19  0:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-11  7:03 [RFC/PATCH] git-add: Don't exclude explicitly-specified tracked files Greg Brockman
2010-08-11 12:24 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-11 20:50   ` Jens Lehmann
2010-08-12  2:11     ` Greg Brockman
2010-08-11 18:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-11 18:36   ` Greg Brockman
2010-08-12  2:59     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-12  3:19       ` Greg Brockman
2010-08-12  8:30 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-08-12 15:54   ` Greg Brockman
2010-08-12 16:31     ` Matthieu Moy
2010-08-12 20:00     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-12 20:19       ` Greg Brockman
2010-08-12 20:40         ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-12 20:26     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-18  9:07       ` Greg Brockman
2010-08-18  9:29         ` [RFC/PATCH] Add test case for dealing with a tracked file in an ignored directory Greg Brockman
2010-08-18  9:43           ` Greg Brockman
2010-08-18  9:50           ` Matthieu Moy
2010-08-19  7:52             ` Greg Brockman
2010-08-19  8:50               ` Matthieu Moy
2010-08-18 13:43           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-18 13:47             ` Matthieu Moy
2010-08-18 14:02               ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-08-19  0:00               ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-19  0:24                 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2010-08-25  3:13                   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-29 18:27                     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

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