Re: [PATCH try2 09/14] apply: add --stage option

2013-10-13 Thread Miles Bader
2013/10/13 Eric Sunshine : > Here "staged". ... > But here "stage". The inconsistency is weird, but isn't the term "staged" a bit odd with something that affects the future...? "Apply to the stage" seems a reasonable english phrasing, but "staged" seems more awkward... -miles -- Cat is power.

Re: [PATCH 1/3] branch: introduce --set-upstream-to

2012-07-12 Thread Miles Bader
Junio C Hamano writes: > is easier to understand, while I think > > git branch [] > git branch --set-upstream-to= [] Isn't one problem with this that even if a "--set-upstream-to" option exists, inevitably some [and I'm guessing, many] people will not be aware of it (after all, nob

Re: [PATCH] fix some clang warnings

2013-01-31 Thread Miles Bader
Jeff King writes: > It seems a little weird to me that clang defines __GNUC__, but I > assume there are good reasons for it. The thing is that "gcc" is as much a language dialect these days as it is a compiler implementation, and many other compilers, including clang, explicitly try to implement

Re: [PATCH 2/3] combine-diff: suppress a clang warning

2013-02-06 Thread Miles Bader
John Keeping writes: > I generally like to get rid of the pointless warnings so that the useful > ones can't hide in the noise. Perhaps "CFLAGS += -Wno-string-plus-int" > would be better for this particular warning, but when there's only one > bit of code that triggers it, tweaking that seemed si

Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2013, #05; Tue, 12)

2013-02-22 Thread Miles Bader
Junio C Hamano writes: > * Introduce "git add --ignore-removal" option in the release after >the current cycle (a new feature is too late for this cycle): Too late in the cycle even if the option is simply ignored ... ? [To extend the range of git versions where it's not an error] -miles

Re: [PATCH 0/4] contrib/subtree: general updates

2013-03-13 Thread Miles Bader
Paul Campbell writes: > James and Michael's patches add if clauses that use the > bashism 'if []' rather than 'if test'. "Bashism"...? I dunno how portable is, but "[" is an old unix alias for "test" ... it certainly predates bash... -miles -- Occam's razor split hairs so well, I bought the w

Re: [GNU-arch-dev] [ANNOUNCEMENT] /Arch/ embraces `git'

2005-04-20 Thread Miles Bader
Way to go. -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html