From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 17:45:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] (exit 1) is silly
Message-ID: <xmqqk2kuiey5.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <56F17BFD.80606@gmail.com>

Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com> writes:

> 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".