On Dec 2, 2010, at 11:42 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Kevin Ballard wrote: >> On Nov 29, 2010, at 9:12 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > >>> The section "2) #ifdefs are ugly" of >>> linux-2.6/Documentation/SubmittingPatches explains the rationale. >> >> Might this be worth pulling into git.git/Documentation/CodingGuidelines? > > Yes, the example there includes good advice I wish I had received > sooner, and Documentation/CodingGuidelines seems like a good place to > help people find it. Do you have some wording in mind? Not particularly. It just seems that if we're going to point people at the linux-2.6 documentation, then what we're referencing should be pulled into our own docs. It's not reasonable to expect people to read the documentation from another project to find out what they should do in this one. -Kevin Ballard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html