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Re: Two minor tweaks on git-gui where textboxes weren't vertically centered with their labels and buttons

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Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
May 22, 2008, 12:11 UTC
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<20080522121107.GK29038@spearce.org>
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > The Signed-off-by is not so much for _you_ as for the people who _use_ 
> > what you contributed, so that they can always say "but Twiinz signed off 
> > on it, he said that he will not sue my $ss off later, like this Darl 
> > b$stard".
> >
> > So yes, I do worry.
> 
> It is not about him suing us, but more about "He certified that he did not
> steal it from anywhere else", iow, other people suing us for what he did.
> 
> And we should worry.

In this case it is a very trivial patch. Anyone who tries to do the same thing is likely to come up with the same result, or one that is close enough that it looks identical anyway.

Still, it isn't in my main tree, because it is lacking a proper Signed-off-by tag by the original author.

-- 
Shawn.
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Message 6 of 12 in “Two minor tweaks on git-gui where textboxes weren't vertically centered with their labels and buttons”
  1. TwiinzMay 18, 2008
  2. Shawn O. PearceMay 19, 2008
  3. TwiinzMay 19, 2008
  4. Johannes SchindelinMay 19, 2008
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 21, 2008
  6. Shawn O. PearceMay 22, 2008
  7. TwiinzMay 22, 2008
  8. Shawn O. PearceMay 22, 2008
  9. TwiinzMay 22, 2008
  10. Junio C HamanoMay 22, 2008
  11. Shawn O. PearceMay 22, 2008
  12. Junio C HamanoMay 22, 2008

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