From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>,
Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail.com>,
Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mingw: introduce the 'core.hideDotFiles' setting
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 10:40:38 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1605111035200.4092@virtualbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqlh3hrfu3.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
Hi Junio,
On Tue, 10 May 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>
> > On Mon, 9 May 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >> Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> >>
> >> > +core.hideDotFiles::
> >> > + (Windows-only) If true, mark newly-created directories and
> >> > files whose + name starts with a dot as hidden. If
> >> > 'dotGitOnly', only the `.git/` + directory is hidden, but no other
> >> > files starting with a dot. The + default mode is to mark
> >> > only the `.git/` directory as hidden.
> >>
> >> I think "The default mode is 'dotGitOnly'" is sufficient, given that
> >> it is described just one sentence before, which is still likely to
> >> be in readers' mind. But I'll let it pass without tweaking.
> >
> > Yeah, when rewriting this after Ramsay pointed out the erroneous
> > documentation, I wanted to fail on the crystal-clear side.
>
> Saying the same thing twice in rapid succession does not make it
> any clearer, though. If you are rerolling anyway, then I think it
> would be better to shorten it to clarify.
Okay, will send out the next iteration in a moment (this is good exercise
for my cross-validating interactive rebase, and it is really not all that
much hassle for me to send out subsequent iterations).
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-11 8:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-04 14:40 [PATCH] mingw: introduce the 'core.hideDotFiles' setting Johannes Schindelin
2016-05-04 16:18 ` Ramsay Jones
2016-05-06 12:06 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-05-04 19:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-06 15:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-05-06 16:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-06 17:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-07 6:01 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-05-07 6:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-05-07 6:44 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Support marking .git/ (or all files) as hidden on Windows Johannes Schindelin
2016-05-07 6:45 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] mingw: introduce the 'core.hideDotFiles' setting Johannes Schindelin
2016-05-09 17:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-10 11:58 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-05-10 17:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-11 8:40 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2016-05-07 6:45 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] mingw: remove unnecessary definition Johannes Schindelin
2016-05-09 17:01 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Support marking .git/ (or all files) as hidden on Windows Junio C Hamano
2016-05-10 8:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-05-10 17:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-11 8:34 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-05-10 11:59 ` [PATCH v3 " Johannes Schindelin
2016-05-10 11:59 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] mingw: introduce the 'core.hideDotFiles' setting Johannes Schindelin
2016-05-10 11:59 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] mingw: remove unnecessary definition Johannes Schindelin
2016-05-11 8:40 ` [PATCH v4 0/2] Support marking .git/ (or all files) as hidden on Windows Johannes Schindelin
2016-05-11 8:43 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-05-11 8:43 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] mingw: introduce the 'core.hideDotFiles' setting Johannes Schindelin
2016-05-11 8:43 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] mingw: remove unnecessary definition Johannes Schindelin
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