From: "Ferry Huberts (Pelagic)" <ferry.huberts@pelagic•nl>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce•org>,
David Aguilar <davvid@gmail•com>,
Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web•de>,
Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] Ensure consistent usage of mergetool.keepBackup in git
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:44:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E0F33B.8070806@pelagic.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49E0F27C.8070203@pelagic.nl>
Ferry Huberts (Pelagic) wrote:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Ferry Huberts <ferry.huberts@pelagic•nl> writes:
>>
>>> In several places merge.keepBackup is used i.s.o.
>>> mergetool.keepBackup. This patch makes it all
>>> consistent for git
>> A silly question. The above makes it sound as if both merge.keepBackup
>> and mergetool.keepBackup are valid, but the latter is preferred, and your
>> patch makes things consistent even though without it there is nothing
>> broken per-se.
>>
>> Is that really is the case?
>>
>> Otherwise, perhaps the title and the message should read like this:
>>
>> Fix misspelled mergetool.keepBackup
>>
>> In several places mergetool.keepBackup was misspelled as merge.keepBackup.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ferry Huberts <ferry.huberts@pelagic•nl>
>
> feel free to change it :-)
> imho there has been way too much discussion for such a simple patch.
>
replying to myself :-)
maybe 'way too much' is a bit strong. I think the part of the discussion
about finding out what actually to do was good. the rest was a bit too
much for my taste. but I'm still getting used to ways of the git.devel
list :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-11 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-10 19:33 [PATCH v3 1/2] Ensure consistent usage of mergetool.keepBackup in git-gui Ferry Huberts
2009-04-10 19:33 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] Ensure consistent usage of mergetool.keepBackup in git Ferry Huberts
2009-04-11 19:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-11 19:41 ` Ferry Huberts (Pelagic)
2009-04-11 19:44 ` Ferry Huberts (Pelagic) [this message]
2009-04-11 20:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-12 7:04 ` Ferry Huberts (Pelagic)
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