On 12/21/2012 04:46 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > [SNIP] > > The only thing the additional knowledge adds seems to be to give > rationale for the old choice of "bold green"---it was not chosen > from thin-air but can be viewed as following the automake/autotest > scheme, and other systems cannot agree on what color to pick for > this purpose. > > I do not see a need to justify why we chose differently from > automake/autotest; we could say something like: > > Yellow seems a more appropriate color than bold green when > considering the universal traffic lights coloring scheme, where > green conveys the impression that everything's OK, and amber that > something's not quite right. This is in line with what 'prove' > uses, but different from 'automake/autotest' do. > > but we are not in the business of choosing which is more correct > between prove and automake/autotest, and I do not see how it adds > much value to tell readers that color choices are not universally > agreed upon across various test software suites---that's kind of > known, isn't it? > > So... > That is fine with me, I just pointed it out because I suspected not everybody was aware of all these details. If you decide they don't matter, it's perfectly OK -- but at least now it's an informed choice ;-) Thanks, Stefano -- 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