From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 23:44:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] doc: document error handling functions and conventions (Re: [PATCH 03/14] copy_fd: pass error message back through a strbuf)
Message-ID: <20141204234432.GA29953@peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20141204234147.GF16345@google.com>

On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 03:41:47PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> >> Here's a draft for documentation on that.
> >
> > Thanks; looks reasonable; even if the discussion between you and
> > Peff took us to a slightly different direction than what you
> > described here, the earlier description of long established practice
> > is a welcome addition.
> 
> I think I see what I misunderstood.  Do you mean "even if we settle on
> a different API, this documentation of what you started with should be
> easy to adapt and will make life easier"?
> 
> In other words, did you mean to say that things are still up in the
> air (which I agree with) or that the project has already settled on a
> different direction (which I do not)?

FWIW, that is how I read it (up in the air), and where I thought our
discussion was.

-Peff