Just to clarify I did not see Marius patch. Did see Marius' comment saying he would look it in the leftoverbits list, but since i didn't see any patch i thought i could work on it and did so based on Stephan's comment (which i suppose Mario also did and that is why the code resulted to be similar). And sorry send this email as patch. Didn't know how to use git send-email just as reply On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 12:26 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Christian Couder <christian.couder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >>> Can somebody explain what is going on? >>> >>> I am guessing that Thais and marius are different people (judging by >>> the fact that one CC's a message to the other). Are you two >>> collaborating on this change, or something? >> >> I guess that Thais decided to work on this, because we ask Outreachy >> applicants to search for #leftoverbits mentions in the mailing list >> archive to find small tasks they could work on. >> >> In this case it looks like Marius sent a patch a few hours before >> Thais also sent one. > > ... after seeing Marius's already working on it, I think. > >> Thais, I am sorry, but as Marius sent a patch first, I think it is >> better if you search for another different small task to work on. > > In general, I do not mind seeing people working together well, and > it is one of the more important skills necessary in the open source > community. I however tend to agree with you that this is a bit too > small a topic for multiple people to be working on. > >> Also please keep Peff and me in cc. > > Yup, that is always a good idea. > -- Atenciosamente Thais Diniz Braz