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Re: [PATCH] Improve documentation for --dirstat diff option

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HOHeikki Orsila <shdl@zakalwe.fi>
Date
Sep 1, 2008, 10:34 UTC
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On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 03:29:23AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> The word "damage" did raise my eyebrow as well, even though I knew it came
> from the wording of the variable to compute it, and coming from somebody
> like Linus it somewhat sounds funny ;-)

I rather liked the term "damage", but changed it :) "Impact" also has the semantic meaning of high-level consequences, like "impact" of a scientific publication.

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Heikki Orsila
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  3. Junio C HamanoSep 1, 2008
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