Re: Gets rid of length in the docs. (issue 4965053)

[Graham Percival]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 07:45:04AM +0000, address@hidden wrote:
> I can't say I like this change: it makes a complex user
> interface more complex.  Shouldn't we be moving in the
> opposite direction?

On general principle I agree, but I believe that this patch simply
brings the docs in line with actual git master.  I assume that the
examples about stem length currently just do nothing.  As such, I
think we should go ahead with it.

32570e8ac85561afc1f59712301ee80c0d69d2b3
The one-line summary doesn't mention anything about syntax
changes, but the detailed commit message makes it clear.

Moral of the story?  pay more attention to patch countdowns, I
guess.  I wouldn't be adverse to asking developers to clearly
state a syntax change in the 50-character summary (although this
gets tricky; maybe simply adding "(syntax)" would be ok?)... but
at the end of the day, the patch went through the countdown.

Cheers,
- Graham