Re: [PATCH] git doc: direct bug reporters to mailing list archive (Re: [PATCH v2] git.txt: mention mailing list archive)

2018-09-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Junio C Hamano wrote: >> OK. This unfortunately came a bit too late for today's integration >> cycle, so I'll leave this in my inbox and replace what is queued >> with it later. >> >> Unless there is another one to supersede this proposal comes before >> that happens,

Re: [PATCH] git doc: direct bug reporters to mailing list archive (Re: [PATCH v2] git.txt: mention mailing list archive)

2018-09-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Junio C Hamano wrote: > OK. This unfortunately came a bit too late for today's integration > cycle, so I'll leave this in my inbox and replace what is queued > with it later. > > Unless there is another one to supersede this proposal comes before > that happens, that is. > > Thanks. Sounds

Re: [PATCH] git doc: direct bug reporters to mailing list archive (Re: [PATCH v2] git.txt: mention mailing list archive)

2018-09-28 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jonathan Nieder writes: > My experience is that bug reporters are very sensitive to hints the > project gives about what kind of bugs they want to receive. I'd > rather make use of that lesson now instead of waiting to relearn it in > the wild. Here goes. OK. This unfortunately came a bit

[PATCH] git doc: direct bug reporters to mailing list archive (Re: [PATCH v2] git.txt: mention mailing list archive)

2018-09-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Subject: git doc: direct bug reporters to mailing list archive The mailing list archive can help a user encountering a bug to tell whether a recent regression has already been reported and whether a longstanding bug has already had some discussion to start their thinking. Based-on-patch-by: