[darcs-users] darcs patch: +custom hints file based on haskell_poli... (and 2 more)

[Jason Dagit]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Trent W. Buck <twb at cybersource.com.au>wrote:

> gwern0 at gmail.com writes:
>
> > Thu Aug  6 06:27:06 EDT 2009  gwern0 at gmail.com
> >   * +script to run hlint on src/
>
> Now that this work has been done (hooray!), some obligatory nitpicking.
>
> Why do the patch names start with a "+"?


I can answer this part.  Short-hand for "add" or "adds".  It's not a
convention we have adopted as a community, but I kind of like it because if
it became a convention it would keep things short without being overly
cryptic.

I'll let Gwern et al answer the rest :)

Jason
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