Re: [PATCH] doc: Modify git-add doc to say "staging area"

On December 14, 2017 1:50:00 PM EST, Junio C Hamano wrote: >I agree with that. I do not consider the proposed change "good". Why is "index" better? It is a confusing name, one that has many other unrelated meanings. In particular, many projects managed by git also have an

Re: [PATCH] doc: Modify git-add doc to say "staging area"

On December 13, 2017 7:54:04 AM EST, "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" wrote: >After your patch the majority of the docs will still talk about >"index", is this part of some larger series, perhaps it would be good >to see it all at once... Yes, this would be part of a larger series.

Re: [PATCH] doc: Modify git-add doc to say "staging area"

he list of paths that are of interest. If the phrase "staging area" is consistently used *instead* of index, there's no problem. E.g., "git clean consults the staging area" conveys exactly the same information as "git clean consults the index" when index == staging area. The term "index" has too many *other* meanings. --- David A. Wheeler

Re: [PATCH] doc: Modify git-add doc to say "staging area"

On December 13, 2017 12:40:12 AM EST, Jacob Keller wrote: >I know we've used various terms for this concept across a lot of the >documentation. However, I was under the impression that we most >explicitly used "index" rather than "staging area". I think "staging area" is

[PATCH] doc: Modify git-add doc to say "staging area"

tly use the phrase "staging area", which is higher-level and should be less confusing for new users. Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwhee...@dwheeler.com> --- Documentation/git-add.txt | 104 -- 1 file changed, 54 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)

[PATCH] Expand documentation describing --signoff

umentation will make it easier to argue that developers understood --signoff when they use it. Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwhee...@dwheeler.com> --- Documentation/git-am.txt | 1 + Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt | 1 + Documentation/git-commit.txt | 6 +- Document

Re: [PATCH] clone: Warn if clone lacks LICENSE or COPYING file

it configured via the user/system config might be an interesting feature. Would that be acceptable to the wider group? --- David A. Wheeler -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http

Re: [PATCH] clone: Warn if clone lacks LICENSE or COPYING file

what most people rely on anyway. Indeed, a *lack* of this is a sign of trouble, which is exactly what warnings are good for. --- David A. Wheeler (P.S. I posted this previously but it seems to have failed for some reason, so I'm resending this in a different way.) -- To unsubscribe from this list

[PATCH] clone: Warn if clone lacks LICENSE or COPYING file

accidentally omit a license, so this is common enough to note. For more info on the issue, feel free to see: http://choosealicense.com/no-license/ http://www.wired.com/2013/07/github-licenses/ https://twitter.com/stephenrwalli/status/247597785069789184 Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler dwhee...@dwheeler.com

[PATCH] clone: Warn if LICENSE or COPYING file lacking and !clone.skiplicensecheck

/247597785069789184 Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler dwhee...@dwheeler.com --- builtin/clone.c | 44 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+) diff --git a/builtin/clone.c b/builtin/clone.c index 9572467..a3e8584 100644 --- a/builtin/clone.c +++ b/builtin/clone.c

Re: [PATCH] #!/bin/sh -- #!/usr/bin/env bash

, and anything performance-sensitive will be in C. --- David A. Wheeler - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

[PATCH] Eliminate use of mktemp's -t option

everywhere (assuming you have mktemp). This is a patch against git-pasky 0.6.3. This is my first attempt to _post_ a patch using git itself, and I'm not entirely sure how you want it. Let me know if you have a problem with it! --- David A. Wheeler commit 5f926b684025b83e34386bf8e4ef30a97e2ae5ec tree

Re: ia64 git pull

can say that bash, ash csh all do NOT consider # as a comment start if an alpha precedes it. The same is true for OpenBSD /bin/sh, /bin/csh, and /bin/rksh. If such different shells do the same thing (this stuff isn't even legal C-shell text!), it's likely others do too. --- David A. Wheeler

Re: Change pull to _only_ download, and git update=pull+merge?

the results are essentially the same, just because so many people are already familiar with them, but only where it makes sense.) --- David A. Wheeler - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: [script] ge: export commits as patches

command names that are similar to what people already know can really help make the tool a joy to use./soapbox_to_choir --- David A. Wheeler - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo

Re: [2/4] Sorting commits by date

tool. But once things have settled down there's been some experience with the tools, the pieces could be slowly recoded. (Yes, I know of use Cygwin. And I prefer Python over Perl, but I'm really uninterested in language wars.) --- David A. Wheeler - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Storing permissions

of git. But what the heck, I _like_ flexible infrastructures. --- David A. Wheeler - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Storing permissions

Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, David A. Wheeler wrote: There's a minor reason to write out ALL the perm bit data, but only care about a few bits coming back in: Some people use SCM systems as a generalized backup system Yes. I was actually thinking about having system config files

Re: Parseable commit header

. Yes, a tool can handle the conversion, but choosing formats so a tool is unneeded for simple stuff is often better! --- David A. Wheeler - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org

Re: Yet another base64 patch

to other projects. I'm more worried about the storage format; if the code doesn't support some particular feature but it could be added later without great pain, no big deal. If something would imply a complete rewrite, that's undesirable. --- David A. Wheeler - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

comments are more common than in Linux kernel code. --- David A. Wheeler - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Yet another base64 patch

. It's a trade-off, I know. --- David A. Wheeler - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: SHA1 hash safety

, the signatures might not work, depending on how you do it. --- David A. Wheeler - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Storing permissions

Paul Jackson wrote: Junio wrote: Sounds like svn I have no idea what svn is. svn = common abbreviation for Subversion, a widely-used centralized SCM tool intentionally similar to CVS. --- David A. Wheeler - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message