From: "David Kågedal" <davidk@lysator•liu.se>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Lose perl dependency. (fwd)
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:16:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vej0gh4k.fsf@morpheus.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7vr6tp5aqq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox•net> writes:
> Bill Lear <rael@zopyra•com> writes:
>
>> How about a '--order' switch?
>>
>> --order=chrono[logical]
>> --order=rev[erse][-chrono[logical]] (default)
>>
>> The switches "--reverse" and "--noreverse" are certainly confusing in
>> the context of a default that is "reverse chronological order".
>
> I think --reverse is just fine. It is "reverse" from usual, and
> people already know (or they should learn) what the usual order
> is.
>
>> BTW, my mailer is defaulting to sending mail to the original poster,
>> CCing others, including the mailing list. I'm used to simply replying
>> to the list. Is this the proper convention here, to reply directly to
>> humans and CC the list?
>
> I only speak for myself, but I always prefer to address my
> message's To: header to the person I am primarily talking to,
> while leaving other people on Cc: line (which usually includes
> the list address).
I, on the other hand, have recently been annoyed by having my inbox
filled with mails that I already can read on the list (actually the
gmane newsgruop). So there is probably not a single good answer.
--
David Kågedal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-21 22:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-18 10:49 [PATCH] Lose perl dependency. (fwd) Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-18 11:52 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-01-18 13:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-18 14:03 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-01-18 15:00 ` Andy Parkins
2007-01-18 15:08 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-19 19:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-19 23:54 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-20 0:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-20 1:18 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-20 1:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-20 1:31 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-20 3:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-20 4:02 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-01-20 9:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-20 18:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-20 22:04 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-21 0:37 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-01-21 1:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-21 2:32 ` Bill Lear
2007-01-21 3:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-21 22:16 ` David Kågedal [this message]
2007-01-21 22:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-23 13:18 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-01-23 13:50 ` David Kågedal
2007-01-23 14:34 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-01-23 17:07 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-01-23 23:27 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-01-23 23:48 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-01-21 2:56 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-01-21 11:19 ` [PATCH] Teach revision machinery about --reverse Johannes Schindelin
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