From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:43:23 GMT Subject: Re: Call Me Gitless Message-ID: <7v1w0k3i5g.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20080819175220.GA10142@coredump.intra.peff.net> Jeff King writes: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 08:22:19PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> I do not know if I like the end result, but here is a patch to make the >> traditional a/ and b/ prefix more mnemonic. > > Hmm. Something deep in my gut doesn't like this, just because I like the > fact that no matter how I prepare a diff (and I do tend to do it > different ways and post to the mailing list) it always ends up the same. I had the exact same reaction when I prepared and sent the patch with i/ and w/ prefixes. I'm trying to see if that "deep in my gut" feeling is merely coming from my being very used to see a/ vs b/ or something more fundamental, even though my working hypothesis is that I'll get used to it.