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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail•com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx•de>,
	Brendan Forster <shiftkey@github•com>,
	git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Reinstate the helpful message when `git pull --rebase` fails
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2015 17:52:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq612grhg7.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1444336120.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Thu, 08 Oct 2015 22:35:08 +0200")

Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx•de> writes:

> Brendan Forster noticed that we no longer see the helpful message after
> a failed `git pull --rebase`. It turns out that the builtin `am` calls
> the recursive merge function directly, not via a separate process.
>
> But that function was not really safe to be called that way, as it
> die()s pretty liberally.

If that is the case, I'd thinkg that we'd prefer, as a regression
fix to correct "that", i.e., let recursive-merge die and let the
caller catch its exit status.

Paul, what do you think?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-09  0:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-08 20:35 [PATCH 0/2] Reinstate the helpful message when `git pull --rebase` fails Johannes Schindelin
2015-10-08 20:35 ` [PATCH 1/2] merge_recursive_options: introduce the "gentle" flag Johannes Schindelin
2015-10-08 20:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] pull --rebase: reinstate helpful message on abort Johannes Schindelin
2015-10-09 18:36   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-10-12  9:16     ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-10-12 20:33       ` Junio C Hamano
2015-10-09  0:52 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-10-09  1:40   ` [PATCH 0/2] Reinstate the helpful message when `git pull --rebase` fails Paul Tan
2015-10-09  9:50     ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-10-09 10:11       ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-10-09 20:49         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-10-10  4:58         ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-10-10 16:05         ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-10-12 10:45           ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-10-09 18:15     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-10-09 18:40       ` Junio C Hamano
2015-10-09 18:55         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-10-12  9:46           ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-10-09 20:46         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-10-12  9:40         ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-10-12 20:28           ` Junio C Hamano
2015-10-13 11:48             ` Johannes Schindelin

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