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From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>,
	git@vger.kernel.org,
	 Jonathan Davies <jonathan.davies@nutanix.com>,
	Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>,
	 Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>,
	Linus Arver <linusa@google.com>,
	 Florian Schmidt <flosch@nutanix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wt-status: Don't find scissors line beyond buf len
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2024 16:26:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPig+cRNa22A=fEmc__JvEjYiVF-QG8o7w0gukhbeL3e-PwVkA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqo7bpka6e.fsf@gitster.g>

On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 4:24 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <code@khaugsbakk.name> writes:
> > On Thu, Mar 7, 2024, at 21:47, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >> [jc: tweaked the commit log message and the implementation a bit]
> >
> > Just a question. Given the imperative mood principle/rule, why are these
> > bracket changelog lines always written in the past tense?
>
> These are not giving orders to the code to become like so.  The
> trailer block records what happend to the patch in chronological
> order---think of those written there at one level higher level,
> "meta" comments.

Also, they are not always written in past tense[*].

[*]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20240112171910.11131-1-ericsunshine@charter.net/

  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-07 21:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-07 18:37 [PATCH] wt-status: Don't find scissors line beyond buf len Florian Schmidt
2024-03-07 19:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-03-07 20:47   ` Junio C Hamano
2024-03-07 21:09     ` Eric Sunshine
2024-03-07 21:15     ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2024-03-07 21:24       ` Junio C Hamano
2024-03-07 21:26         ` Eric Sunshine [this message]
2024-03-07 21:30           ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2024-03-08  9:08   ` Florian Schmidt
2024-03-08 15:26     ` Junio C Hamano
2024-03-08 17:43       ` Florian Schmidt
2024-04-06  1:37   ` Linus Arver
2024-03-07 19:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-03-08  9:13   ` Florian Schmidt

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