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Which one of outdated, misleading or irrelevant category does this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 It certainly is not outdated (diff --cc/-c is often a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.
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