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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Cc: Heba Waly via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/1] [Outreachy] commit: display advice hints when commit fails
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:23:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq7e2sazlh.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191219185427.GA227872@google.com> (Emily Shaffer's message of "Thu, 19 Dec 2019 10:54:27 -0800")

Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 10:26:40AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> "Heba Waly via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> >      @@ -19,16 +19,16 @@
>> >             #   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
>> >             #   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
>> >             #
>> >      -      #   modified:   ../builtin/commit.c
>> >      +      #   modified:   /builtin/commit.c
>> 
>> Really?
>
> It's hard to know what this cryptic comment means.. :)
>
> This was a recommended change:
> https://lore.kernel.org/git/20191218031338.203382-1-jonathantanmy@google.com
>
> Since other changes were being made at the same time, I personally don't
> mind a little nit fix in the commit message.
>
> Or, do you mean that "now it looks like the file is at the filesystem
> root, which is wrong"? It is indeed wrong now when it wasn't before. But
> I, for one, can't tell what you mean by just the one word.

That is exactly the point.  I am not in the business of spoon
feeding answers.  I want my contributors to *think*.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-19 19:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-17  9:17 [PATCH 0/1] [Outreachy] commit: display advice hints when commit fails Heba Waly via GitGitGadget
2019-12-17  9:17 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Heba Waly via GitGitGadget
2019-12-17 22:41   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-17 22:45   ` Emily Shaffer
2019-12-19  3:47     ` Heba Waly
2019-12-18  3:13   ` Jonathan Tan
2019-12-18 18:14     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-19  3:48     ` Heba Waly
2019-12-19  9:16 ` [PATCH v2 0/1] [Outreachy] " Heba Waly via GitGitGadget
2019-12-19  9:16   ` [PATCH v2 1/1] " Heba Waly via GitGitGadget
2019-12-19 19:14     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-19 19:22       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-19 19:47         ` Eric Sunshine
2019-12-19 19:57           ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-20  2:31         ` Emily Shaffer
2019-12-20 18:34           ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-20 21:39             ` Emily Shaffer
2019-12-31  0:04         ` Jonathan Tan
2019-12-31 19:06           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-01-02 19:56             ` Jonathan Tan
2019-12-19 18:26   ` [PATCH v2 0/1] [Outreachy] " Junio C Hamano
2019-12-19 18:54     ` Emily Shaffer
2019-12-19 19:23       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2019-12-19 19:45         ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-21  4:37           ` Heba Waly
2019-12-21 23:54             ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-21  5:02   ` Heba Waly

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