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Re: trivial: remove the dots at the end of file names

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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 7, 2006, 10:32 UTC
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<20060107103202.GC5536@steel.home>
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Junio C Hamano, Fri, Jan 06, 2006 23:37:24 +0100:
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> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Subject: [PATCH] Remove the dots at the end of file names
> > to make the output more mouse copy-paste friendly.
> 
> > -		echo "ERROR: Merge conflict in $4."
> > +		echo "ERROR: Merge conflict in $4"
> 
> Hmph.  I think there are places we state pathname within 'single
> quotes' as a part of sentence, which may have the same issue.
No-no-no! These are perfectly fine (for bash, at least)!
> I understand and am sympathetic to the motivation, but at the same
> time messages that do not end with full-stop somehow make me feel
> quite uneasy. I'll swallow the patch; maybe it is just me.
I hope so. Don't you ever use mouse copy-pasting?!
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