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Re: [PATCHv3] git-tag man: when to use lightweight or annotated tags

From
Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date
Jul 27, 2013, 11:26 UTC
Message-ID
<720060083F5C476A905C09146E7CD711@PhilipOakley>
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From: "Daniele Segato" <daniele.segato@gmail.com>
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> On 07/26/2013 09:06 PM, Jeff King wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 07:33:01PM +0200, Daniele Segato wrote:
>>
>>> stress the difference between the two with suggestion on when the 
>>> user
>>> should use one in place of the other.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Daniele Segato <daniele.segato@gmail.com>
>>
>> The intent of your patch seems reasonable to me. There are a few 
>> minor
>> language and typographical mistakes, and the patch itself is
>> whitespace-damaged.
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
> thanks for the feedback, very appreciated.
>
> But I don't understand what's wrong with the whitespaces.
>
> Can you explain to me what's wrong and how I can avoid the issue?
>
> I use thunderbird in text mode to send emails, should I use something 
> else? what?

Try 'git format-patch' and 'git send-email'. The format-patch man page even has a note about Thunderbird corruptions.

Philip
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>
>>
>> I also do not know that it is accurate to say "most git commands 
>> ignore
>> lightweight tags". It is really only "naming" ones like "git 
>> describe".
>>
>> Here is a re-send of your patch with the fixups I would recommend.
>>
>
> Thanks, it's obviously better.
>
> I'll send this new version as soon as you or someone else explain me 
> how to fix the whitespace damage.
>
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Message 18 of 23 in “git tag usability issue: Lightweight vs Annotated confusion for the end user (ex. git describe default)”
  1. Daniele SegatoJul 24, 2013
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 24, 2013
  3. git-tag man: when to use lightweight or annotated tagsDaniele Segato, Jul 25, 2013
  4. Marc BranchaudJul 25, 2013
  5. Daniele SegatoJul 26, 2013
  6. Daniele SegatoJul 26, 2013
  7. Marc BranchaudJul 26, 2013
  8. Daniele SegatoJul 26, 2013
  9. Daniele SegatoJul 26, 2013
  10. Jeff KingJul 26, 2013
  11. Jonathan NiederJul 26, 2013
  12. Daniele SegatoJul 29, 2013
  13. Daniele SegatoAug 7, 2013
  14. Marc BranchaudJul 26, 2013
  15. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2013
  16. Daniele SegatoJul 29, 2013
  17. Daniele SegatoJul 27, 2013
  18. Philip OakleyJul 27, 2013
  19. Stefan BellerJul 27, 2013
  20. Daniele SegatoJul 29, 2013
  21. Marc BranchaudJul 26, 2013
  22. Daniele SegatoJul 29, 2013
  23. Daniele SegatoJul 25, 2013

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