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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat•com>,
	git@vger•kernel.org,
	Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] builtin/interpret-trailers.c: allow -t
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 10:26:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqa8l51gae.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpqtwjduymh.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (Matthieu Moy's message of "Thu, 07 Apr 2016 19:17:42 +0200")

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr> writes:

>> I am in principle OK with the later step that teaches a single
>> letter option to end-user facing "git am" that would be turned into
>> "--trailer" when it calls out to "interpret-trailers" (I haven't
>> checked if 't' is a sensible choice for that single letter option,
>> though).
>
> If 'am' has -t == --trailer, I think it makes sense to have the same
> shortcut in interpret-trailers for consistency.

It is the other way around.  "git am" may be OK with "-t" (or it may
not--I do not know yet), but other commands that are currently
unaware of "interpret-trailers" (cherry-pick, revert, etc.) may have
better uses for a short-and-sweet 't'.

In the ideal future, "interpret-trailers" should not have to exist
in the end-users' vocabulary, as all the front-line end-user facing
programs would be aware of it.  But we are not there.

Letting it reserve a short-and-sweet 't' that allows it to dictate
that its callers must have the same 't' is tail wagging the dog that
I want to avoid.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-07 17:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-07 15:23 [PATCH 0/4] git-am: use trailers to add extra signatures Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-07 15:23 ` [PATCH 1/4] builtin/interpret-trailers.c: allow -t Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-07 16:55   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-07 17:17     ` Matthieu Moy
2016-04-07 17:26       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-04-07 17:30         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-07 17:28     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-07 17:30       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-07 17:52         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-07 17:56           ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-07 15:23 ` [PATCH 2/4] builtin/interpret-trailers: suppress blank line Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-07 17:00   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-07 17:21     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-07 17:21     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-07 17:34       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-10 14:56         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-07 17:35   ` Matthieu Moy
2016-04-07 15:23 ` [PATCH 3/4] builtin/am: read mailinfo from file Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-07 17:08   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-07 17:15     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-07 17:36   ` Matthieu Moy
2016-04-07 15:23 ` [PATCH 4/4] builtin/am: passthrough -t and --trailer flags Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-07 16:39   ` Christian Couder

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