[PATCH] revert: simplify help message, better error message on reverting a merge
Adrian Buehlmann
adrian at cadifra.com
Mon Jun 6 16:39:19 CDT 2011
On 2011-06-06 23:13, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 22:52 +0200, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
>
>> (now I'll shut up on this, since Matt wants to keep that line as it is)
>
> I was -completely- open to changing this line provided the replacement
> actually ADDRESSED THE EXPRESSED INTENT. Otherwise, I would not have
> spent on the order of two hours corresponding with you on the subject. I
> would have just said no.
Yeah. It's indeed amazing how much we wrote about this line. And I don't
think we made any progress at all.
> This is not some mysterious personality quirk of mine, it's how software
> engineering is done. We don't drop imperfect bug fixes, we make them
> better.
I really don't know what you are talking about here.
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