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Re: [PATCHv2 0/8] docs: use metavariables consistently

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 18, 2010, 20:27 UTC
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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
> Ah, missed this before.  It is not clear to me why this difference ---
> is it just to be conservative about changing behavior?

Yes. It is clear from the context you mean its tree if you feed a commit to commit-tree, but the original intent of not dereferncing was to avoid mistakes by scripts and people, so you need to make a convincing argument that not derefencing does not help avoiding mistakes, and prove that nobody's script is relying on the current behaviour for type-checking purposes.

Previous: Mark Lodato
Message 19 of 19 in “[PATCHv2 0/8] docs: use metavariables consistently”
  1. Mark LodatoDec 18, 2010
  2. 1/8 fsck docs: remove outdated and useless diagnosticMark Lodato, Dec 18, 2010
  3. 2/8 docs: use `...' instead of `*' for multiplicityMark Lodato, Dec 18, 2010
  4. Jakub NarebskiDec 18, 2010
  5. Mark LodatoDec 18, 2010
  6. 3/8 docs: use <sha1> to mean unabbreviated IDMark Lodato, Dec 18, 2010
  7. Jonathan NiederDec 18, 2010
  8. Junio C HamanoDec 18, 2010
  9. 4/8 http-fetch docs: use <commit-id> consistentlyMark Lodato, Dec 18, 2010
  10. Jonathan NiederDec 18, 2010
  11. 5/8 grep docs: grep accepts a <tree-ish>, not a <tree>Mark Lodato, Dec 18, 2010
  12. 6/8 docs: use <tree> instead of <tree-ish>Mark Lodato, Dec 18, 2010
  13. Jonathan NiederDec 18, 2010
  14. 7/8 docs: use <commit> instead of <commit-ish>Mark Lodato, Dec 18, 2010
  15. Jonathan NiederDec 18, 2010
  16. 8/8 describe docs: note that <commit> is optionalMark Lodato, Dec 18, 2010
  17. Jonathan NiederDec 18, 2010
  18. Mark LodatoDec 18, 2010
  19. Junio C HamanoDec 18, 2010

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