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Re: [PATCH] clean up confusing suggestion for commit references

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 10, 2016, 19:14 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 11:24:01AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> I no longer have preference either way myself, even though I was in
>> favor of no-quotes simply because I had an alias to produce that
>> format and was used to it.
>
> I'll admit that I don't care _that_ much and am happy to leave it up to
> individual authors, as long as nobody quotes SubmittingPatches at me as
> some kind of gospel when I use the no-quotes form.
;-).

I just do not want to hear "gitk (or was it git-gui) produces quoted form, why are you recommending no-quoted form in SubmittingPatches?"

I'd say "use common sense; sometimes it is less confusing to read without quotes and it is perfectly OK to do so if that is the case".

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Message 5 of 7 in “clean up confusing suggestion for commit references”
  1. clean up confusing suggestion for commit referencesHeiko Voigt, Oct 7, 2016
  2. Jeff KingOct 7, 2016
  3. Junio C HamanoOct 10, 2016
  4. Jeff KingOct 10, 2016
  5. Junio C HamanoOct 10, 2016
  6. Heiko VoigtOct 11, 2016
  7. Junio C HamanoOct 10, 2016

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