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Re: gitosis-lite

From
Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 26, 2009, 05:01 UTC
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On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Jakub Narebski<jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sitaram Chamarty wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Jakub Narebski<jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Wouldn't it be better to use "use warnings" instead of 'perl -w'?
>> I'm not sure what is the minimum perl required for git
> I think that git requires Perl at least version 5.6
thanks; I'll change "-w" to "use warnings"
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>> > It would be, I think, better if you have used POD for such
>> > documentation.  One would be able to generate manpage using pod2man,
>> > and it is no less readable in source code.  See e.g. perl/Git.pm or
>> > contrib/hooks/update-paranoid.
>>
>> Hmm... I've been spoiled by Markdown's sane bullet list
>> handling.  Visually, POD forces everything other than code
>> to be flush left -- any sort of list is definitely less
>> readable in source code as a result.  IMHO of course.
>
> How it is relevant to the issue at hand?  I was talking about replacing
> documentation comments in the header with POD markup.
>
> Also you usually document top-level structures with POD.

Forget I mentioned markdown :) All I'm saying is that even in the documentation you speak of, I have a couple of small "lists". And I like lists to be properly indented, that's all -- I am mentally unable to edit them if they are all flush left :-( just like it's irritating to edit code that's mis-indented or not indented. Sorry...!

And yes, one of my python friends has then asked "why do you not like python". I have no answer. As Whitman said (http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26914.html):

    Do I contradict myself?
    Very well then I contradict myself,
    (I am large, I contain multitudes.)
:-)
Regards,
-- 
Sitaram "not normally given to quoting poets" Chamarty
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