Re: [PATCH 3/3] abbrev: auto size the default abbreviation

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> >> OK, as Linus's "count at the point of use" is already in 'next',
> >> could you make it incremental with a log message?
> >
> > Sure. I wasn't sure if you actually liked my direction or not, so I was
> > mostly just showing off what the completed one would look like.
> 
> To be quite honest, I am not just unsure if I liked your direction;
> rather I am not sure if I actually understood what you perceived as
> a difference that matters between the two approaches.  I wanted to
> hear you explain the difference in terms of "Linus's does this, but
> it is bad in X and Y way, so let's avoid it and do it like Z
> instead".  One effective way to extract that out of you was to force
> you to justify the "incremental" update.
> 
> And it seems that I succeeded ;-).
> 
> I am still not sure if I 100% agree with your first paragraph, but
> at least now I think I see where you are coming from.