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Re: [PATCH 1/4] Documentation: Add filter.<driver>.* to config

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Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
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Apr 7, 2011, 11:57 UTC
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Ramkumar Ramachandra venit, vidit, dixit 06.04.2011 20:09:
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> Hi Junio,
> 
> Junio C Hamano writes:
>> Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:
>>> I'm very sorry to have caused so much pain.  Yes, I can imagine how
>>> terrible it must be to review several iterations of a simple
>>> documentation patch.  Thank you for being so patient with me so far- I
>>> understand if you don't want to do this anymore.
>>>
>>> I do spend time proofreading patches before sending them out, but I'm
>>> clearly not very good at it.  In future, I'll either try rewriting
>>> entire paragraphs or simply refrain from writing documentation patches.
>>
>> I do not think that is the lesson you should learn from this exchange.  A
>> major part of Michael's complaint (which I think was justified) was that
>> he even made a suggestion that is ready to be cut-and-pasted, but your
>> reroll does not use the suggested phrasing _without_ explaining why it
>> doesn't.
>>
>> It is not limited to "documentation patches".  If you get a "how about
>> doing it this way---isn't it cleaner?" suggestion to your code patch, you
>> at least owe either "yeah, that looks better---thanks, I've used it in
>> this reroll" or "no, because...; I've used the original" to the person who
>> tried to help you, no?
> 
> I completely agree -- all of Michael's suggestions were excellent, and
> I'd definitely owe him an explanation for not using something.  In
> this particular case, it was an honest mistake though- I meant to
> include Michael's version, but I'd rolled out the wrong commit after
> rebasing.

Ram, all is well (explained) now, and please don't give up on documentation patches. You see, it happened to me again and again that I submitted something, and someone took over the initiative or the idea and submitted something under his name. And that is completely OK (after all I had signed off on my patch, it's part of the O in OSS) but "deprives" the original submitter of the "reward" of having the commit count incremented. And that is what I wanted to spare you by not submitting my own version.

Cheers, Michael

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  1. Documentation: Document diff.<tool>.* and filter.<driver>.* in configRamkumar Ramachandra, Apr 1, 2011
  2. Jakub NarebskiApr 1, 2011
  3. Documentation: Document diff.<tool>.* and filter.<driver>.* in configRamkumar Ramachandra, Apr 1, 2011
  4. Jakub NarebskiApr 1, 2011
  5. Michael J GruberApr 1, 2011
  6. 0/3 Document diff and filter drivers in configRamkumar Ramachandra, Apr 3, 2011
  7. 1/3 Documentation: Add filter.<driver>.* to configRamkumar Ramachandra, Apr 3, 2011
  8. Michael J GruberApr 4, 2011
  9. 2/3 Documentation: Add diff.<driver>.* to configRamkumar Ramachandra, Apr 3, 2011
  10. Michael J GruberApr 4, 2011
  11. Junio C HamanoApr 4, 2011
  12. 3/3 Documentation: Allow custom diff tools to be specified in 'diff.tool'Ramkumar Ramachandra, Apr 3, 2011
  13. Michael J GruberApr 4, 2011
  14. 0/4 Document diff and filter drivers in configRamkumar Ramachandra, Apr 6, 2011
  15. 1/4 Documentation: Add filter.<driver>.* to configRamkumar Ramachandra, Apr 6, 2011
  16. Michael J GruberApr 6, 2011
  17. Ramkumar RamachandraApr 6, 2011
  18. Junio C HamanoApr 6, 2011
  19. Ramkumar RamachandraApr 6, 2011
  20. Michael J GruberApr 7, 2011
  21. Ramkumar RamachandraApr 7, 2011
  22. 2/4 Documentation: Add diff.<driver>.* to configRamkumar Ramachandra, Apr 6, 2011
  23. 3/4 Documentation: Allow custom diff tools to be specified in 'diff.tool'Ramkumar Ramachandra, Apr 6, 2011
  24. 4/4 Documentation: Minor language improvements to merge-configRamkumar Ramachandra, Apr 6, 2011
  25. 0/4 Document diff and filter drivers in configRamkumar Ramachandra, Apr 6, 2011
  26. 1/4 Documentation: Add filter.<driver>.* to configRamkumar Ramachandra, Apr 6, 2011
  27. 2/4 Documentation: Add diff.<driver>.* to configRamkumar Ramachandra, Apr 6, 2011
  28. Junio C HamanoApr 6, 2011
  29. Ramkumar RamachandraApr 7, 2011
  30. 3/4 Documentation: Allow custom diff tools to be specified in 'diff.tool'Ramkumar Ramachandra, Apr 6, 2011
  31. 4/4 Documentation: Minor language improvements to merge-configRamkumar Ramachandra, Apr 6, 2011
  32. Michael J GruberApr 7, 2011
  33. Michael J GruberApr 7, 2011

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