From: Mark Lodato Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 16:45:11 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 0/8] docs: use metavariables consistently Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20101218084908.GE6187@burratino> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 3:49 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Mark Lodato wrote: >> This is a rework of my earlier patch set from March [1], with the following >> differences: >> >> - Drop the patch to commit-tree that makes it accept a tree-ish. > > Ah, missed this before.  It is not clear to me why this difference --- > is it just to be conservative about changing behavior? Exactly. Junio replied to my original email saying he did not think this patch was unsafe, so if you think the patch is a good idea, I'll re-send it. >> [1] http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2010/3/13/25484 > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/142078 As an aside, how do you actually find threads on gmane? I can't find anything on Google.