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From: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change octal literals to be XEmacs friendly
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:53:31 +0300 (MSK)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0901232158290.2186@linmac.oyster.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vbpty1m1r.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> malc@pulsesoft.com writes:
>
>> case uses eql and (eql ?\001 1) evaluates to nil under XEmacs
>> (probably because some internal type of ?\001 is char)
>
> And I presume the new way to spell is compatible with non XEmacs emacs?
> It may be obvious to you, but please spell it out.  Parenthesized
> "probably" does not help building the confidence in the patch either.

Fair enough.

XEmacs:
(type-of ?\1) yields character

FSF Emacs:
(type-of ?\1) yields integer

>
>> Signed-off-by: Vassili Karpov <av1474@comtv.ru>
>
> How are the (nameless) author of the patch malc@pulsesoft.com and Vassili
> Karpov, the person who signed off, related?

Both are my e-mail address used in ~/.gitconfig and ~/.emacs (and used
by GNUS which was used to post the message via gmane's nntp interface)
respectively.

> Next time, please spend a few minutes to see if there are active
> developers who are familiar in the area you are touching, and Cc your
> patch to ask their input.
>
>    git blame -L562,+29 contrib/emacs/git.el
>

Okay.

> tells me that most of this came from 40f162b (git.el: Display file types
> and type changes., 2008-01-06) by Alexandre, so I am Cc'ing him.
>

[..snip..]

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-23 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-21 17:02 [PATCH] Change octal literals to be XEmacs friendly malc
2009-01-23  8:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-23 19:53   ` malc [this message]
2009-01-23 20:13     ` Junio C Hamano

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