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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-am: Handle "git show" output correctly
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:18:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vpq5raqiq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1347482918.21933.5.camel@eddie.install.bos.redhat.com> (Peter Jones's message of "Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:48:38 -0400")

Peter Jones <pjones@redhat•com> writes:

> Well, if that happens, maybe we could regexp match on
> "[[:alnum:]_-]+: /someexprthatlookslikeanemailaddress/" ?

I doubt that would be even reliably done.

> But we could
> also just wait to cross that bridge until we get to it?

Not really.  If we start encouraging people to use "git show" output
as a kosher input to "am", we would have to support such use
forever, and we end up painting ourselves in a corner we cannot get
out of easily.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-12 21:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-12 15:26 [PATCH] Handle "git show" output correctly Peter Jones
2012-09-12 15:30 ` Peter Jones
2012-09-12 15:41   ` Matthieu Moy
2012-09-12 15:49     ` [PATCH] [git-am] " Peter Jones
2012-09-12 15:57       ` Matthieu Moy
2012-09-12 17:32         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-12 18:05           ` Peter Jones
2012-09-12 19:07             ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-12 15:42   ` [PATCH] " Peter Jones
2012-09-12 15:40 ` Matthieu Moy
2012-09-12 18:00   ` Peter Jones
2012-09-12 18:08     ` [PATCH] git-am: " Peter Jones
2012-09-12 20:06       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-12 20:48         ` Peter Jones
2012-09-12 21:03           ` Peter Jones
2012-09-12 21:18           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-09-12 21:26             ` Dan Johnson
2012-09-12 22:19               ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-12 22:31                 ` Dan Johnson
2012-09-12 23:05                   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-12 22:41                 ` Andreas Ericsson

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