From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:29:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve documentation for --dirstat diff option
Message-ID: <7vwshww458.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <g9gdev$2un$1@ger.gmane.org>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> Heikki Orsila wrote:
> ...
>> +       can be set with "--dirstat=limit". Damage for a child directory is not
>> +       counted for the parent directory, unless "--cumulative" is used.
>
> I rather prefer "impact" to "damage". And it should probably be 
> "child directory _shown_".

The word "damage" did raise my eyebrow as well, even though I knew it came
from the wording of the variable to compute it, and coming from somebody
like Linus it somewhat sounds funny ;-) I was going to suggest using a
more neutral "change" in the end user documentation.