Thomas Ackermann <th.ac...@arcor.de> writes: >> Even though I personally am slightly in favor of removal, I suspect >> that is primarily because I already know what Git tag is, and it is >> different from the type tag in the Lisp-speak. >> > I assumed the cardinality of the set of Lisp users is so small that > this addition will confuse more people than help somebody. > >> The text indeed has a room for improvement, but it probably makes >> sense to have an entry for `directory` here, as folks who are used >> to say "Folders" may not know what it is. >> > I assumed the number of such people so low that it's not worth > to keep this - to most people obvious - explanation.
For the above two (they are of the same theme) to help one audience, I tend to be cautious and try not to say "I don't fall into the target audience, and to me it is misleading/irrelevant, so let's remove it". >> Which one of outdated, misleading or irrelevant category does this >> fall into? It certainly is not outdated (diff --cc/-c is often a >> way to view evil merges), the text defines what an evil merge is >> precisely and I do not think it is misleading. Is it irrelevant? >> > I considered it "irrelevant" because it tries to define > "evil merge" which is - at least to my experience - not used > as some kind of well known notion. But I might of course be wrong. In a merge-heavy workflow, evil merges have to happen from time to time, and it is a good concept to know about. I however think the description is too literal and it does not lead to the understanding of what it is used for. I see a few questions on the stackoverflow with unsatisfactory literal answers, too. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
