From: Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 20:14:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clean weird documentation for 'git var' and 'git
Message-ID: <CAGK7Mr4GJw4zZ5Qwab+co07JG5kBn-EFsfmU+Yzpm6LoD8j-Rw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vvck3najc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

>> I guess I'm just unfamiliar with the "Diagnostics" section of a man
>> page.
>
> Ahh, that makes your initial message understandable.
>
> It indeed is not one of the very common and established ones, and it may
> help to give it a gentler introduction.

Yes that's much better. Thanks!

I think in the long term those error messages should be more
descriptive. For example "Your parents must have hated you" should be
"Your name is too long, maximum %d characters allowed" or whatever.

Philippe