On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Andy Parkins wrote: > If I've understood the attributes system correctly, it's worth bearing > in mind that "!diff" is not the same as "nodiff". The not in "!diff" > means "supress the attribute diff", not as you would traditionally > imagine "not-diff". In this case it doesn't matter because there are > only two possibilities for the diff engine - show the diff or don't. > However, more attributes might get added that aren't so simple. > > Junio - This makes me think that perhaps "!" is not the right symbol for > this - that's going to get read by programmers everywhere as NOT, > rather than suppress. Perhaps it doesn't matter, I might be > over-thinking this. Maybe "-" then? That better convey the notion of suppression while "!" is more about negation. Nicolas - 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