From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 14:14:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] Re: user-manual: general improvements
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In-Reply-To: <94a0d4530905210017x1ce3e32bk3b1fbf9044377763@mail.gmail.com>

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

>> Maybe this was even discussed earlier in the thread (I didn't go back to
>> look), but it should definitely be part of the commit message.
>
> The rule I followed is: change it to whatever looks best.

"Looks best to me" is not something other people can follow to replicate
the examples you set here to further "clean up" other parts of the
documentation set or writing new sections to the document you touched up
with this patch.

I suspect that you would not deny the possibility of saying "The result
looked better when I last looked at it, but now I think about it I do not
know why I thought it looked better" three months down the line.

It is not a rule.