From: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail•com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, ps@pks•im, karthik.188@gmail•com
Subject: Re: [GSoC PATCH v2 1/2] repo: add the flag -z as an alias for --format=nul
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2025 10:50:03 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <FBD7B727-BE36-45FF-BD19-8086701C9753@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqcy8frqn2.fsf@gitster.g>
> Putting the devil's advocate hat on, "--format=<plain,nul>" was an
> attempt to avoid needless proliferation of options (e.g. presense of
> "-z" would tempt people into add "--json" when they introduce
> "--format=json"), so it may not be unconditionally a good idea to
> mimic these older commands where there are only two output formats.
Yeah, I understand...
> You'd probably need to define a parseopt callback function for
> "format" and "-z", and remember the one that you saw the last. So
> giving "-z --format=nul --format=text" would first set an internal
> "format" to FORMAT_NUL_TERMINATED (due to "-z"), and then to the
> same FORMAT_NUL_TERMINATED again (due to "--format=nul"), and then
> finally to FORMAT_TEXT (due to "--format=text"), or something like
> that, which would give the familiar "the last one wins" semantics.
Ok, accepted! I'll also replace the tests and the documentation in
order to match this behavior. Thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-01 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-20 14:42 [GSoC PATCH 0/2] repo: add -z and objects.format Lucas Seiki Oshiro
2025-08-20 14:42 ` [GSoC PATCH 1/2] repo: add the flag -z as an alias for --format=nul Lucas Seiki Oshiro
2025-08-21 10:12 ` Karthik Nayak
2025-08-21 16:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-08-21 16:52 ` Karthik Nayak
2025-08-21 10:29 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-08-21 13:29 ` Lucas Seiki Oshiro
2025-08-21 17:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-08-21 20:57 ` Lucas Seiki Oshiro
2025-08-21 21:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-08-21 18:23 ` Jean-Noël AVILA
2025-08-21 19:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-08-20 14:42 ` [GSoC PATCH 2/2] repo: add the field objects.format Lucas Seiki Oshiro
2025-08-21 10:29 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-08-21 19:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-08-26 14:51 ` Lucas Seiki Oshiro
2025-08-21 10:14 ` [GSoC PATCH 0/2] repo: add -z and objects.format Karthik Nayak
2025-08-21 16:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-08-21 10:29 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-08-21 13:23 ` Lucas Seiki Oshiro
2025-08-21 14:55 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-08-21 17:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-08-26 18:13 ` Lucas Seiki Oshiro
2025-08-26 18:32 ` [GSoC PATCH v2 " Lucas Seiki Oshiro
2025-08-26 18:32 ` [GSoC PATCH v2 1/2] repo: add the flag -z as an alias for --format=nul Lucas Seiki Oshiro
2025-08-28 23:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-01 13:50 ` Lucas Seiki Oshiro [this message]
2025-08-26 18:32 ` [GSoC PATCH v2 2/2] repo: add the field objects.format Lucas Seiki Oshiro
2025-09-01 17:27 ` [GSoC PATCH v3 0/2] repo: add -z and objects.format Lucas Seiki Oshiro
2025-09-01 17:27 ` [GSoC PATCH v3 1/2] repo: add the flag -z as an alias for --format=nul Lucas Seiki Oshiro
2025-09-02 16:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-02 21:51 ` Lucas Seiki Oshiro
2025-09-01 17:27 ` [GSoC PATCH v3 2/2] repo: add the field objects.format Lucas Seiki Oshiro
2025-09-04 13:40 ` [GSoC PATCH v4 0/2] repo: add -z and objects.format Lucas Seiki Oshiro
2025-09-04 13:40 ` [GSoC PATCH v4 1/2] repo: add the flag -z as an alias for --format=nul Lucas Seiki Oshiro
2025-09-04 13:40 ` [GSoC PATCH v4 2/2] repo: add the field objects.format Lucas Seiki Oshiro
2025-09-04 18:40 ` [GSoC PATCH v4 0/2] repo: add -z and objects.format Junio C Hamano
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