From: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 07:50:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fallback on _NSGetExecutablePath to get the executable path if using argv[0] fails
Message-ID: <CC3783DE-FE16-45E5-B53B-EC8AA133B876@sb.org>
In-Reply-To: <20101203074259.GB18202@burratino>

On Dec 2, 2010, at 11:42 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> Kevin Ballard wrote:
>> On Nov 29, 2010, at 9:12 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> 
>>> The section "2) #ifdefs are ugly" of
>>> linux-2.6/Documentation/SubmittingPatches explains the rationale.
>> 
>> Might this be worth pulling into git.git/Documentation/CodingGuidelines?
> 
> Yes, the example there includes good advice I wish I had received
> sooner, and Documentation/CodingGuidelines seems like a good place to
> help people find it.  Do you have some wording in mind?

Not particularly. It just seems that if we're going to point people at the
linux-2.6 documentation, then what we're referencing should be pulled into
our own docs. It's not reasonable to expect people to read the documentation
from another project to find out what they should do in this one.

-Kevin Ballard