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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org,
	 "Jonathan Davies" <jonathan.davies@nutanix.com>,
	"Phillip Wood" <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>,
	 "Denton Liu" <liu.denton@gmail.com>,
	 "Linus Arver" <linusa@google.com>,
	 "Florian Schmidt" <flosch@nutanix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wt-status: Don't find scissors line beyond buf len
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2024 13:24:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqo7bpka6e.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f8de2b3a-9e12-49fe-a7d9-481317f10c4d@app.fastmail.com> (Kristoffer Haugsbakk's message of "Thu, 07 Mar 2024 22:15:12 +0100")

"Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <code@khaugsbakk.name> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 7, 2024, at 21:47, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Florian Schmidt <flosch@nutanix.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Davies <jonathan.davies@nutanix.com>
>> [jc: tweaked the commit log message and the implementation a bit]
>
> Just a question. Given the imperative mood principle/rule, why are these
> bracket changelog lines always written in the past tense?

These are not giving orders to the code to become like so.  The
trailer block records what happend to the patch in chronological
order---think of those written there at one level higher level,
"meta" comments.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-07 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-07 18:37 [PATCH] wt-status: Don't find scissors line beyond buf len Florian Schmidt
2024-03-07 19:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-03-07 20:47   ` Junio C Hamano
2024-03-07 21:09     ` Eric Sunshine
2024-03-07 21:15     ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2024-03-07 21:24       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2024-03-07 21:26         ` Eric Sunshine
2024-03-07 21:30           ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2024-03-08  9:08   ` Florian Schmidt
2024-03-08 15:26     ` Junio C Hamano
2024-03-08 17:43       ` Florian Schmidt
2024-04-06  1:37   ` Linus Arver
2024-03-07 19:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-03-08  9:13   ` Florian Schmidt

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