From: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2025 14:15:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] doc: git-add: make explanation less dry
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On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> "D. Ben Knoble" <ben.knoble@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > As Junio likes to say, a mistake being old is no good reason to carry
> > it forward into the future (or replicate it).
>
> I say no such thing, though.  What I say about past mistakes is that
> you shouldn't use it as an excuse to make similar ones in the
> future.

Fair; my apologies for misrepresenting your position :)


> I'd prefer to let a sleeping dog lie.
>
> But in the context of this discussion, I think what we carefully and
> honestly need to look at are not past mistakes.  It is importance to
> adjust to the new world we live in.

Agreed, and I could have made this clearer.


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D. Ben Knoble