From: David Kastrup Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 10:14:50 GMT Subject: Re: Recording the current branch on each commit? Message-ID: <87eh0g30it.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> In-Reply-To: <535f76db38a34_6f23159b31099@nysa.notmuch> Felipe Contreras writes: > 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". > 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