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From: "David Symonds" <dsymonds@gmail.com>
To: "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: "Scott Parish" <sRp@srparish.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] include $PATH in generating list of commands for "help -a"
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:45:31 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee77f5c20710290445y553fc9fo90c6e4df9b2aa1a7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710291129250.4362@racer.site>

On 10/29/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Scott Parish wrote:
>
> > I was thinking set operations when i named this (hense "a" and "b"),
> > but i'll try this out.
>
> Yes, I guessed that.  But in that case, "subtract" is actively wrong,
> since you cannot guarantee (and indeed do not want to assume) that one is
> the subset of the other.

The nearest set theory operation would be "difference" (or
"complement"); that does not require that the subtrahend is a subset
of the minuend.


Dave.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-29 11:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-27  8:36 [PATCH 1/7] "git" returns 1; "git help" and "git help -a" return 0 Scott R Parish
2007-10-27  8:36 ` [PATCH 2/7] remove unused/unneeded "pattern" argument of list_commands Scott R Parish
2007-10-27  8:36   ` [PATCH 3/7] "current_exec_path" is a misleading name, use "argv_exec_path" Scott R Parish
2007-10-27  8:36     ` [PATCH 4/7] list_commands(): simplify code by using chdir() Scott R Parish
2007-10-27  8:36       ` [PATCH 5/7] use only the $PATH for exec'ing git commands Scott R Parish
2007-10-27  8:36         ` [PATCH 6/7] walk $PATH to generate list of commands for "help -a" Scott R Parish
2007-10-27  8:36           ` [PATCH 7/7] shell should call the new setup_path() to setup $PATH Scott R Parish
2007-10-28  6:18           ` [PATCH 6/7] walk $PATH to generate list of commands for "help -a" Junio C Hamano
2007-10-28  9:45             ` Scott Parish
2007-10-28 10:07               ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-28 11:15                 ` Scott Parish
2007-10-28 11:18           ` [PATCH 6/7] include $PATH in generating " Scott R Parish
2007-10-28 11:32             ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-28 14:39               ` Scott Parish
2007-10-28 14:44           ` Scott R Parish
2007-10-28 16:51             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-29  2:44               ` Scott Parish
2007-10-29 11:30                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-29 11:45                   ` David Symonds [this message]
2007-10-29  3:30           ` Scott R Parish
2007-10-29 21:17             ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-30  3:00               ` Scott Parish
2007-10-28  6:18         ` [PATCH 5/7] use only the $PATH for exec'ing git commands Junio C Hamano
2007-10-28  6:19           ` Adam Roben
2007-10-28 11:17         ` Scott R Parish

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