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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Julia Evans" <julia@jvns.ca>
Cc: "Julia Evans" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
	 git@vger.kernel.org,  "D. Ben Knoble" <ben.knoble@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: git-diff: rewrite EXAMPLES section
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2026 13:42:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq5wyd6193.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ff8c1473-aaf0-4737-9ddc-5275e6ef70a2@app.fastmail.com> (Julia Evans's message of "Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:45:22 -0500")

"Julia Evans" <julia@jvns.ca> writes:

> It's very hard to understand from the Git history the reasons for
> adding examples that were added 20 years ago, for example
> in 803f498c03b where these were added, especially since the commit
> messages from 20 years ago tend to be a lot more terse.

Sure.  But that is why you send patches here to invite people to
comment on.

> I do hear that AUTO_MERGE was added more recently.

      reply	other threads:[~2026-11-03 21:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-03 15:33 [PATCH] doc: git-diff: rewrite EXAMPLES section Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2026-11-03 17:16 ` Julia Evans
2026-11-03 19:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-11-03 19:52   ` Julia Evans
2026-11-03 20:33     ` Junio C Hamano
2026-11-03 20:45       ` Julia Evans
2026-11-03 21:42         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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