[darcs-users] darcs patch: Tone down unnecessarily scary language when cancelling

Eric Kow kowey at darcs.net
Sun Sep 28 12:54:13 UTC 2008


> > Sat Sep 27 17:40:13 PDT 2008  Simon Michael <simon at joyful.com>
> >   * Tone down unnecessarily scary language when cancelling

This sounds like a good idea

> I lost my long comment there somehow. It said roughly: "it's hard to 
> describe these precisely but here's an example: I started to 
> amend-record --edit-long-comment, changed my mind, quit the editor, got 
> warned about unrevert, answered n to cancel, and was told I had narrowly 
> avoided "catastrophe".

Indeed 'catastrophe' does sound a bit over the top here.  I sometimes
think it wasn't really meant seriously, but if so, we probable want to
be more serious and less charming :-)

-- 
Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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