From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2021 20:06:15 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2021, #02; Tue, 3)
Message-ID: <87im0kn983.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq8s1hozy8.fsf@gitster.g>


On Wed, Aug 04 2021, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
>>> * ab/make-tags-cleanup (2021-07-22) 5 commits
>> ...
>>     As long as we have no user of a -q flag ever, what's the point of
>>     forever carrying the "rm foo*" when we know it's foo.out, just
>>     because a future Makefile change might add foo.blah?
>
> That is not a forward-looking thinking.  A cheap and easy way to
> future-proof was suggested by a reviewer.  Why ignore repeated
> suggestions?

Raising it repeatedly is an odd way to ignore it :)

But sure, all I was looking for was some reply to
https://lore.kernel.org/git/87k0lit57x.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/; if you
want to keep it sure, I'll keep it. Will re-roll.