Re: [PATCH] diff,difftool: Don't use the {0,2} notation in usage strings

From: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 4, 2010, 21:30 UTC
Message-ID: <878w18hj3y.fsf@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20101104204304.GA4641@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> My main argument against that would be that if we are planning on
> changing it to something totally different right now anyway, your patch
> will just end up making textual conflicts for Junio to resolve. :)

Right. I hoped you'd come up with a patch yourself, which now happend, so, thank you. :-)

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> Yeah, sorry to come in late to the discussion. I missed the other thread
> entirely. I think getting rid of {M,N} is fine. In general, your
> proposed replacement is better. It's just that in this case it seemed to
> be obfuscating a subtle point that the original syntax (as ugly and
> incomprehensible as it was) called out.
>
> So yes, go ahead with your coding guidelines patch. I'll summarize what
> Jonathan and I discussed with a new patch.

In that case the v2 [1] is still a valid review target, thanks.

Štěpán

[1] Earlier in the thread and here for anyone interested: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/160733