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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

  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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