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Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Update information about <format> in git-for-each-ref

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Nov 1, 2006, 15:30 UTC
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Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:
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> ... For me it's the other
> way around, so I think of the above as "if it doesn't compare to this
> or that, then do this", but the "are equal to" meaning of "compare"
> isn't intuitive to me as I spent the first several years of my
> english-speaking life using "compare" exclusively as a verb.
<offtopic>

I think I should have said that "I force me to pronounce" and I am trying to say the same thing as you said.

xxxcmp(a, b) literally is "compare a and b and give me the result"; the result coming back as "true" when a and b are different is counter-intuitive and I think it is so to everybody, not limited to non-English speaking people. That's why I force me to ignore the etymology of the "cmp" in the function name and call that "a and b differs" or "subtract b from a" depending on the context.

By the way, I think "a compares to b" is also a verb, not just "i compare a and b and found these differences".

</offtopic>
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Message 7 of 15 in “Documentation: Update information about <format> in git-for-each-ref”
  1. Documentation: Update information about <format> in git-for-each-refJakub Narebski, Oct 28, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoOct 28, 2006
  3. Jakub NarebskiOct 28, 2006
  4. Andreas EricssonNov 1, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoNov 1, 2006
  6. Andreas EricssonNov 1, 2006
  7. Junio C HamanoNov 1, 2006
  8. Johannes SchindelinNov 1, 2006
  9. 1/2 for-each-ref: "creator" and "creatordate" fieldsJakub Narebski, Nov 2, 2006
  10. 2/2 gitweb: Use git-for-each-ref to generate list of heads and/or tagsJakub Narebski, Nov 2, 2006
  11. Junio C HamanoNov 3, 2006
  12. Jakub NarebskiNov 3, 2006
  13. Junio C HamanoNov 3, 2006
  14. Jakub NarebskiNov 3, 2006
  15. Junio C HamanoOct 28, 2006

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