Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2018, #06; Wed, 21)

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Nov 22, 2018, 16:05 UTC
Message-ID: <CAHk-=whO9=J-+4BuzV1WWVE1DRTceTRSeXTpXQjJtSz=NRmqrw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <2775489.rJSdpldxyu@thunderbird>

On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 6:08 PM Stephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net> wrote:

>
> Picking up someones stalled patch is one thing, picking up Linus' patch is in
> a different league.

No, I think it works the other way - my random patches are likely the _least_ important ones, simply because I can carry them around in my own tree anyway, and my workflows may be odd by most git standards.

If I'm the only user of the "human" date format, then Junio is absolutely right to not move it to the main branch.

I have some other private patches in my tree that have been mentioned on the list but that nobody else got excited about:

 - Add 'human' date mode

 - Make 'git gc --prune=now' mean 'prune after start of command'

 - ls-remote: add "--diff" option to show only refs that differ

none of which are in the least important, but that I find personally useful.

              Linus