Aw: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Remove outdated/missleading/irrelevant entries from glossary-content.txt
From: Thomas Ackermann <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:56:36
From: Thomas Ackermann <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:56:36
The text indeed has a room for improvement, but it probably makes sense to have an entry for `directory` here, as folks who are used to say "Folders" may not know what it is.
I assumed the number of such people so low that it's not worth to keep this - to most people obvious - explanation.
Which one of outdated, misleading or irrelevant category does this fall into? It certainly is not outdated (diff --cc/-c is often a way to view evil merges), the text defines what an evil merge is precisely and I do not think it is misleading. Is it irrelevant?
I considered it "irrelevant" because it tries to define "evil merge" which is - at least to my experience - not used as some kind of well known notion. But I might of course be wrong.
Even though I personally am slightly in favor of removal, I suspect that is primarily because I already know what Git tag is, and it is different from the type tag in the Lisp-speak.
I assumed the cardinality of the set of Lisp users is so small that this addition will confuse more people than help somebody. --- Thomas