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Re: [PATCH 3/8] archive: add a failure test wrt .gitattributes misreading

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Apr 16, 2009, 08:22 UTC
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René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> writes:
> Hmm, "fix" implies that something is broken without this option, which
> is not necessarily the case.

"What is recorded in the tree is unsuitable for the purpose of this particular export, so we are xxxing using yyy", is the intended use case, and I think the verb "fix" is a good fit there in "xxx" part. "Tweak" would also work well.

Your suggestion is to say "attributes from the work tree" in place of "yyy", which also is good.

I got the impression that people tend to prefer the operation named after what it does than how it does it, but I can go either way.

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Message 20 of 24 in “support "in-tree attributes" for git-archive”
  1. 0/8 support "in-tree attributes" for git-archiveNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Apr 8, 2009
  2. 1/8 archive: add shortcuts for --format and --prefixNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Apr 8, 2009
  3. 2/8 move prune_cache() to git libNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Apr 8, 2009
  4. 3/8 archive: add a failure test wrt .gitattributes misreadingNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Apr 8, 2009
  5. 4/8 archive: add tests for directory selectionNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Apr 8, 2009
  6. 5/8 attr: add GIT_ATTR_INDEX "direction"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Apr 8, 2009
  7. 6/8 archive: use index instead of parsing tree directlyNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Apr 8, 2009
  8. 7/8 archive: disregard .gitattributes on working directoryNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Apr 8, 2009
  9. 8/8 archive: support creating archives from indexNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Apr 8, 2009
  10. René ScharfeApr 8, 2009
  11. Junio C HamanoApr 8, 2009
  12. Junio C HamanoApr 8, 2009
  13. René ScharfeApr 8, 2009
  14. René ScharfeApr 8, 2009
  15. René ScharfeApr 8, 2009
  16. Junio C HamanoApr 8, 2009
  17. René ScharfeApr 13, 2009
  18. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyApr 14, 2009
  19. René ScharfeApr 14, 2009
  20. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2009
  21. René ScharfeApr 17, 2009
  22. Junio C HamanoApr 18, 2009
  23. Junio C HamanoApr 8, 2009
  24. René ScharfeApr 8, 2009

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