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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn•nl>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] remote: add new --fetch option for set-url
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 12:29:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq61ebrl1g.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141119190800.GB9908@peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Wed, 19 Nov 2014 14:08:00 -0500")

Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:

> I dunno. I guess that is more convenient, but it seems like a lot of
> code for a very marginal use case. But more importantly, I'm a little
> worried that the presence of --fetch creates confusion about what
> set-url without a --fetch or --push does. That is, it implies to me
> that:
>
>   git remote add gh old-url
>   git remote set-url gh --push push-url
>   git remote set-url gh new-url
>
> would replace both the "url" _and_ "pushurl" values in the third step,
> since we did not specify --fetch.  But it is in fact identical whether
> you run it with "--fetch" or not.  That is, it creates a weirdly
> non-orthogonal interface.

Yes, the semantics the updated code gives feel very strange.  I
wouldn't be able to write a three-line summary in the release notes
to advertise what good this new feature brings to users myself.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-11-19 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-19 15:18 [RFC] [PATCH] remote: add new --fetch option for set-url Peter Wu
2014-11-19 19:08 ` Jeff King
2014-11-19 19:42   ` Peter Wu
2014-11-19 20:17     ` Jeff King
2014-11-19 20:48       ` Peter Wu
2014-11-19 20:29   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-11-19 20:52     ` Peter Wu
2014-11-19 21:00       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-19 20:58   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-19 21:18     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-19 21:28       ` Peter Wu
2014-11-24 21:45         ` Peter Wu
2014-11-24 22:04           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-24 22:16             ` Peter Wu
2014-11-24 22:22               ` Jeff King
2014-11-24 22:47                 ` Peter Wu
2014-11-24 22:54                   ` Jeff King
2014-11-24 23:05                     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-24 23:27                     ` Peter Wu
2014-11-25  4:08                       ` Jeff King
2014-11-25  4:55                         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-25  5:01                           ` Jeff King
     [not found]                             ` <CAPc5daWh4hnKsTMpaW-TvCmVDfU+rzCezrAHcLgXDG6RVvzXHA@mail.gmail.com>
2014-11-25 11:43                               ` Peter Wu
2014-11-25 11:36                         ` Peter Wu
2014-11-29 13:31                       ` Philip Oakley
2014-12-02 17:45                         ` Peter Wu
2014-12-02 23:50                           ` Junio C Hamano

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