Re: meta-suggestion Re: svn:ignore and svn merge - quick questions

Johan Corveleyn wrote on Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 20:18:07 +0200:
> [ Small meta-suggestion: please drop the "quick question" suffix from
> your future posts. It's distracting, and often the answers aren't that
> quick to come up with :-). And because of this, you scare away some
> potential helpers, when some of us think "hey, I have to think more
> than 10 seconds about this 'quick question', so I'm probably not the
> right guy ... perhaps other list-people will answer this one". ]

Well, I would suggest those list-people to doubt themselves a little less
and answer anyway:

- They probably know that part of Subversion better than the poster

- Posters often get some things wrong (example: "I want to use
  global-ignores to avoid merge conflicts", "Why doesn't 'svn ps -F
  .gitignore svn:ignore' work (slashes in the pattern))

- Worst case, someone else will come along and corrects their answer
Received on 2013-04-27 22:13:37 CEST