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From: David Gould <david@optimisefitness•com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail•com>,
	git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Probable bug in file run-command.c function clear_child_for_cleanup
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:40:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <504EF913.2050202@optimisefitness.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v4nn5ocvv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi guys,

Sorry for the delayed reply - what passes for my real life intruded 
somewhat.

I'll get on to it today, but please be aware this will be my first-ever 
patch for ANY project, so am likely to foul up the process.

I am reading the How To Submit Patches document even now....

Cheers,
David

On 10/09/12 21:12, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 01:00:35PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>>>>> And to conclude my bikeshedding for the day: Shouldn't "last" ideally
>>>>> be called something like "prev" instead? It's the previously visited
>>>>> element, not the last element in the list.
>>>>
>>>> It is the "last" element visited (just as "last week" is not the end of
>>>> the world), but yes, it is ambiguous, and "prev" is not. Either is fine
>>>> by me.
>>>
>>> OK, so who's gonna do the honors?
>>
>> I was hoping to give David a chance to submit his first-ever patch to
>> git.
>
> OK. David, is it OK for us to expect a patch from you sometime not
> in distant future (it is an old bug we survived for a long time and
> nothing ultra-urgent)?
>

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      reply	other threads:[~2012-09-11  8:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-09 14:44 Probable bug in file run-command.c function clear_child_for_cleanup David Gould
2012-09-10 13:44 ` Jeff King
2012-09-10 13:58   ` Erik Faye-Lund
2012-09-10 14:10     ` Jeff King
2012-09-10 20:00       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-10 20:01         ` Jeff King
2012-09-10 20:12           ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-11  8:40             ` David Gould [this message]

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