From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2011 09:04:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] revert: Simplify passing command-line arguments around
Message-ID: <CALkWK0niwg1Ogs+xBr8NHEce-MUUzPc_Upn0ZKRi3iCZ6fA4BQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20111009085306.GA9209@elie.hsd1.il.comcast.net>

Hi Jonathan,

Jonathan Nieder writes:
> More important than the idiom is the intent.  Presumably that intent
> was something like "I wrote the commit message, so if it makes you
> scratch your head, blame me, not Jonathan; and I made some other
> (minor) improvements, so consider blaming me even if it's the
> functional part that makes you scratch your head."

Exactly.

> Sorry I haven't had a chance to look over the patch yet.  Is it
> supposed to introduce a behavior change, does it prepare for some
> future change, or is it just a cleanup?

Prepare for some future change.  See $gmane/179282 for original discussion.

-- Ram