From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 10:32:02 GMT
Subject: Re: trivial: remove the dots at the end of file names
Message-ID: <20060107103202.GC5536@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vu0chrniz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano, Fri, Jan 06, 2006 23:37:24 +0100:
> 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?!