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Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:08:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Smaran Jaianand <24070721037@sithyd.siu.edu.in> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GSoC PATCH v3] bugreport: revert incorrect usage message change In-Reply-To: <20260330174131.456-5-24070721037@sithyd.siu.edu.in> (Smaran Jaianand's message of "Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:41:10 +0000") References: <20260330064454.76833-1-24070721037@sithyd.siu.edu.in> <20260330174131.456-5-24070721037@sithyd.siu.edu.in> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:08:45 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Smaran Jaianand <24070721037@sithyd.siu.edu.in> writes: > Revert the previous change to keep it consistent with documentation. > Based on the feedback, the usage string is intended to represent command syntax rather than provide a description. You really do not have to post a patch to revert something that was rejected and did not get applied anywhere to our tree. We frown upon a patch series that makes mistakes in an earlier step, only to fix them in a later step. The "git rebase -i" command helps us pretend to be more perfect developers than we actually are, whipping your patch series into a shape that builds one small step on top of another in a logical succession. Such a patch series is easier to understand than a history that faithfully records all the stumbles the developer made until they reached the final solution. If you rebuilt your changes, while removing any parts that shouldn't be there, in an effort to pretend to be a more perfect developer, sometimes you might end up with an empty patch, and that is OK. You can just send a message that you are retracting the earlier patch and everybody would understand. Thanks.