git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: [PATCH v8 0/7] git-p4: add support for large file systems

From
Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 4, 2015, 18:15 UTC
Message-ID
<DD450E04-582C-498A-92D8-D6A78ECB30F1@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<xmqqd1wv3lyc.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
On 03 Oct 2015, at 10:23, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
Show 27 quoted lines
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
>> Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org> writes:
>> 
>>> All looks good to me, Ack.
>>> 
>>> One tiny thing perhaps Junio could comment on: the git commit message
>>> for 75abe9fa5b39980de27dfc33dd5b4f4b5926f34c, "git-p4: add optional
>>> type specifier to gitConfig reader" uses what looks like UTF-8 encoded
>>> left and right quotes, rather than regular ASCII quotes ("). I don't
>>> know if that matters.
>> 
>> Yeah, I noticed them, too.  In general, I'd prefer to avoid these
>> pretty-quotes myself, as they typically do not add much information
>> (unless nesting matters, which is usually not the case in the log
>> message, or something) and the primary effect of them is to force us
>> to step outside ASCII, which causes editors and pagers to misalign
>> for some people.
>> 
>> But it is not too huge an issue that it is worth to go back and fix
>> them, either.
> 
> Well, I looked at it again and it also replaced double-dash before
> option names like --bool and --int with something funny (are these
> em-dashes?), which is a more serious bogosity than pretty quotes, so
> I ended up amending the message for that commit after all.
> 
Oh. This was not intentional. I wonder how that happened. I will watch out for it in the future.

Thanks for fixing, Lars

Previous: Junio C Hamano
Message 13 of 13 in “git-p4: add support for large file systems”
  1. 0/7 git-p4: add support for large file systemslarsxschneider@gmail.com, Sep 26, 2015
  2. 1/7 git-p4: add optional type specifier to gitConfig readerlarsxschneider@gmail.com, Sep 26, 2015
  3. 2/7 git-p4: add gitConfigInt readerlarsxschneider@gmail.com, Sep 26, 2015
  4. 3/7 git-p4: return an empty list if a list config has no valueslarsxschneider@gmail.com, Sep 26, 2015
  5. 4/7 git-p4: add file streaming progress in verbose modelarsxschneider@gmail.com, Sep 26, 2015
  6. 5/7 git-p4: check free space during streaminglarsxschneider@gmail.com, Sep 26, 2015
  7. 6/7 git-p4: add support for large file systemslarsxschneider@gmail.com, Sep 26, 2015
  8. 7/7 git-p4: add Git LFS backend for large file systemlarsxschneider@gmail.com, Sep 26, 2015
  9. Junio C HamanoSep 28, 2015
  10. Luke DiamandOct 3, 2015
  11. Junio C HamanoOct 3, 2015
  12. Junio C HamanoOct 3, 2015
  13. Lars SchneiderOct 4, 2015

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.