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Re: [PATCH] (exit 1) is silly

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 22, 2016, 17:45 UTC
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Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com> writes:
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> On 3/22/2016 17:16, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> IMO, this is such a minor thing that once it _is_ in the tree, it's
>> not really worth the patch noise to go and fix it up.
>
> IMO, instead of writing this you could have just accepted the patch,
> reducing the patch noise ;-)

"patch noise" does not mean the volume of the list traffic. It is the number of pointless changes in the history of the project, and accepting this patch would _encourage_ similar pointless changes, i.e. "patch noise".

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  1. (exit 1) is sillyizabera, Mar 22, 2016
  2. Junio C HamanoMar 22, 2016
  3. Sebastian SchuberthMar 22, 2016
  4. Junio C HamanoMar 22, 2016

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