Re: [PATCH v6 00/11] Column display
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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
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- Feb 27, 2012, 08:14 UTC
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On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Come to think of it, that is really the same distaste I had against both > "diff --no-index" and "grep --no-index". We know adding our enhancements > over non-git versions of these programs is a better gift to the outside > world, but we instead added the --no-index mode to Git to only keep the > benefit to ourselves, because it is far easier for us to do so.
Exactly. Some people like me also benefit from the popularity of Git. If it's (likely) installed, I get many extra features for free. There are machines that I'm not allowed to install new stuff on. If it comes with BSD "column", not too bad. If not arghhh.
-- Duy