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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Raman Gupta <rocketraman@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] contrib/rerere-train: optionally overwrite existing resolutions
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 13:41:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq60efq6bo.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32b61c4b-5e58-30d9-4345-8036bc805019@gmail.com> (Raman Gupta's message of "Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:06:51 -0400")

Raman Gupta <rocketraman@gmail•com> writes:

> On 26/07/17 02:05 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> I haven't tried this patch, but would this work well with options
>> meant for the 'git rev-list --parents "$@"' that grabs the list of
>> merge commits to learn from?  e.g.
>> 
>> 	$ contrib/rerere-train.sh -n 4 --merges master
>> 	$ contrib/rerere-train.sh --overwrite -n 4 --merges master
>> 	$ contrib/rerere-train.sh -n 4 --overwrite --merges master
>> 
>> I do not think it is necessary to make the last one work; as long as
>> the first two work as expected, we are good even if the last one
>> dies with a sensible message e.g. "options X, Y and Z must be given
>> before other options" (currently "X, Y and Z" consists only of
>> "--overwrite", but I think you get what I mean).
>
> You're right -- I didn't try all the cases. I wasn't able to figure
> out how to get `rev-parse --parseopt` to deal with this situation, so
> I did it manually. I'm not super-happy with the result, but it does
> work. Look for PATCH v3.

Yes, I think you could squash the two case arms in the later loop
into one i.e.

	-h|--help|-o|--overwrite)
		die "please don't." ;;

but still the repetition does look ugly.

As a contrib/ material, I do not care too deeply about it, though.

Will queue.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-26 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-25 14:34 [PATCH/RFC] contrib: rerere-train overwrites existing resolutions Raman Gupta
2017-07-25 21:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-07-25 22:48   ` [PATCH v2] contrib/rerere-train: optionally overwrite " Raman Gupta
2017-07-26 18:05     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-07-26 19:06       ` Raman Gupta
2017-07-26 20:41         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-07-28 18:40           ` Raman Gupta
2017-07-26 19:08       ` [PATCH v3] " Raman Gupta

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