On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 9:51 PM Josh Soref <jsoref@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > I am not sure why this is Co-au, and not the more usual "Helped-by". > > If you look at the thread, you'll see that the code in question was > written by Eric [1]. The only change from it was the addition of > `void` to the function prototype by me. Oops, I suppose I've been doing too much Go and C++ lately and am forgetting `void`. I don't have a strong opinion between Co-authored-by: and Helped-by: in this case. Here's my sign-off if you want to retain Co-authored-by: Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Actually, not so fast. The end-users do not care really where the > > message originates. > > > > $ git grep -e 'Already up[- ]to' \*.c > > maint:builtin/merge.c: finish_up_to_date(_("Already up to date.")); > > maint:builtin/merge.c: finish_up_to_date(_("Already up to date. Yeeah!")); > > maint:merge-ort-wrappers.c: printf(_("Already up to date!")); > > maint:merge-recursive.c: output(opt, 0, _("Already up to date!")); > > maint:notes-merge.c: printf("Already up to date!\n"); > > > > It probably makes sense to replace the exclamation point with a full > > stop for others, no? > > Maybe. I'm not sure what they mean. > > I generally try not to do that when I initially approach a project, I > prefer to get more comfortable w/ it and let it get more comfortable > w/ me before I make significant change proposals. Indeed. While it might be nice to settle upon a single punctuation style for these messages, I don't see this as a requirement of the patch in question. It could, of course, be re-rolled as a two-patch series in which the second patch addresses the exclamation points, but fixing the punctuation could also be done later as a follow-up patch by someone (it doesn't need to be you). So, I don't see a good reason to hold up the current patch which stands nicely on its own.