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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rev-list: update a NEEDSWORK comment
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 06:18:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqzfcwuzxo.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1599cd31-436c-4ac7-bbef-be7dfbff00a3@app.fastmail.com> (Kristoffer Haugsbakk's message of "Tue, 22 Jul 2025 10:41:02 +0200")

"Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 22, 2025, at 00:46, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> The comment was poorly phrased and it wasn't clear what it wanted to
>> say.  Strongly discourage this broken pattern to be copied and
>> pasted to other code paths.
>
> Why “was”?  Shouldn’t it be “The comment is poorly phrased ... so
> [change it]”.  According to SubmittingPatches, “present-tense”.

True.  Thanks for spotting.

      reply	other threads:[~2025-07-22 13:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-07-18 23:58 [PATCH] rev-list: make "struct rev_list_info" static to the only user Junio C Hamano
2025-07-19  6:35 ` Jeff King
2025-07-19 12:36   ` René Scharfe
2025-07-20  0:04     ` Jeff King
2025-07-20  0:41     ` Junio C Hamano
2025-07-21 22:46 ` [PATCH] rev-list: update a NEEDSWORK comment Junio C Hamano
2025-07-22  8:16   ` Jeff King
2025-07-22  8:41   ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2025-07-22 13:18     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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