Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/3] gitweb: make suspenders more useful

From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date: Aug 23, 2009, 22:48 UTC
Message-ID: <4A91C74D.1080908@vilain.net>
In-Reply-To: <4A91C512.7000707@mailservices.uwaterloo.ca>

Mark Rada wrote:

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>>> Subject: [RFC/PATCH 1/3] gitweb: make suspenders more useful
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>> Suspenders?  Really?
>>     
> Context:
>
> On 21/08/09 5:43 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>   
>> I do not mind keeping these two lines as belt-and-suspender, though.
>>     
> Yup...I couldn't think of an appropriate title and I expect this
> patch to be edited (for another reason) or thrown out anyways.
>

Please don't do that. Use of metaphors makes the code harder to follow, especially for non-native speakers. In this case you confused me, a British/NZ native speaker because you only used half of the idiom; so all I was left with was a word which in the English where I speak refers to a piece of clothing worn most often by prostitutes and people at the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Can I suggest "snapshot error handling" as a more neutral term... Sam