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Re: Recording the current branch on each commit?

From
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date
Apr 29, 2014, 10:14 UTC
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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
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> David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> Well, there you have it.  The ones that do any kind of relevant change
>> are the ones that need thinking about and consideration.  And when you
>> are so verbose about them that
>> 
>> a) you are getting on people's nerves
>> b) nobody else finds something worth saying that you did not already say
>> 
>> then the net effect is that it feels to the person in question he's
>> mainly doing you (and not all that many others) a favor by investing
>> the work for properly considering it and its consequences.
>
> This is the last time I say it: this is demonstrably false.
Feelings are not categorizable as "demonstrably false".
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> You claim that relevant changes can be made if the submitter is not so
> verbose (and less aggressive and what not).
>
> This is obviously not the case. Show me any change of importance done
> in the last two years, hell, make it four. And by change I mean
> something that was one way before, and was another way after.

The default behavior of "git push". Colorized diffs. "git add dir/" can now remove files. "git gc --aggressive" has been sanitized.

-- 
David Kastrup
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Message 45 of 69 in “Recording the current branch on each commit?”
  1. Jeremy MortonApr 26, 2014
  2. Robin RosenbergApr 27, 2014
  3. Jeremy MortonApr 27, 2014
  4. James DenholmApr 27, 2014
  5. Jeremy MortonApr 27, 2014
  6. James DenholmApr 27, 2014
  7. Felipe ContrerasApr 28, 2014
  8. Jeremy MortonApr 28, 2014
  9. David KastrupApr 28, 2014
  10. Jeremy MortonApr 28, 2014
  11. David KastrupApr 28, 2014
  12. David LangApr 29, 2014
  13. Junio C HamanoApr 28, 2014
  14. Johan HerlandApr 27, 2014
  15. Jeremy MortonApr 27, 2014
  16. Johan HerlandApr 27, 2014
  17. Jeremy MortonApr 27, 2014
  18. Johan HerlandApr 27, 2014
  19. Christian CouderApr 28, 2014
  20. Jeremy MortonApr 28, 2014
  21. Johan HerlandApr 28, 2014
  22. Jeremy MortonApr 28, 2014
  23. David LangApr 29, 2014
  24. Felipe ContrerasApr 28, 2014
  25. Jeremy MortonApr 28, 2014
  26. Felipe ContrerasApr 28, 2014
  27. Jeremy MortonApr 28, 2014
  28. Felipe ContrerasApr 28, 2014
  29. David KastrupApr 28, 2014
  30. Felipe ContrerasApr 28, 2014
  31. James DenholmApr 28, 2014
  32. Felipe ContrerasApr 28, 2014
  33. Junio C HamanoApr 28, 2014
  34. Felipe ContrerasApr 28, 2014
  35. Junio C HamanoApr 29, 2014
  36. Felipe ContrerasApr 29, 2014
  37. James DenholmApr 29, 2014
  38. Felipe ContrerasApr 29, 2014
  39. James DenholmApr 29, 2014
  40. Felipe ContrerasApr 29, 2014
  41. David KastrupApr 29, 2014
  42. Felipe ContrerasApr 29, 2014
  43. David KastrupApr 29, 2014
  44. Felipe ContrerasApr 29, 2014
  45. David KastrupApr 29, 2014
  46. Felipe ContrerasApr 29, 2014
  47. David KastrupApr 29, 2014
  48. Felipe ContrerasApr 29, 2014
  49. James DenholmApr 29, 2014
  50. Felipe ContrerasApr 29, 2014
  51. James DenholmApr 29, 2014
  52. Felipe ContrerasApr 29, 2014
  53. James DenholmApr 29, 2014
  54. Felipe ContrerasApr 29, 2014
  55. James DenholmApr 29, 2014
  56. Felipe ContrerasApr 29, 2014
  57. James DenholmApr 30, 2014
  58. Felipe ContrerasApr 30, 2014
  59. James DenholmApr 30, 2014
  60. Piotr KrukowieckiApr 29, 2014
  61. Robin RosenbergApr 29, 2014
  62. Sitaram ChamartyApr 28, 2014
  63. Jeremy MortonApr 28, 2014
  64. Sitaram ChamartyApr 28, 2014
  65. David KastrupApr 28, 2014
  66. Sitaram ChamartyApr 28, 2014
  67. Johan HerlandApr 28, 2014
  68. Felipe ContrerasApr 28, 2014
  69. Felipe ContrerasApr 28, 2014

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