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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Linus Arver <linusa@google•com>
Cc: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail•com>,
	 git@vger•kernel.org, Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks•im>,
	 John Cai <johncai86@gmail•com>,
	Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily•org>,
	 Elijah Newren <newren@gmail•com>,
	 Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] rev-list: add --allow-missing-tips to be used with --missing=...
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2024 08:34:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqfry4cjxt.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <owlyttmkmwaf.fsf@fine.c.googlers.com> (Linus Arver's message of "Wed, 07 Feb 2024 01:57:28 -0800")

Linus Arver <linusa@google•com> writes:

> IOW, make the minority (certainly not majority, I think?) of users who
> really need the error propagation use the (new) extra flag, while the
> rest of us (including the version of you who was surprised by the
> limited behavior of "--missing=...", enough to write this series) don't
> have to.

I am skeptical that we even want that.  Those who want to use the
"--missing" and care about special casing missing starting points
can easily check with things like "cat-file -e" before even running
the "rev-list --missing".

  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-07 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-01 11:58 [PATCH 0/3] rev-list: allow missing tips with --missing Christian Couder
2024-02-01 11:58 ` [PATCH 1/3] revision: clarify a 'return NULL' in get_reference() Christian Couder
2024-02-01 14:53   ` Eric Sunshine
2024-02-01 16:49     ` Christian Couder
2024-02-01 11:58 ` [PATCH 2/3] t6022: fix 'even though' typo in comment Christian Couder
2024-02-01 11:58 ` [PATCH 3/3] rev-list: add --allow-missing-tips to be used with --missing= Christian Couder
2024-02-01 20:20   ` Junio C Hamano
2024-02-02 11:29     ` Christian Couder
2024-02-02 16:47       ` Junio C Hamano
2024-02-01 21:27   ` Junio C Hamano
2024-02-02 11:29     ` Christian Couder
2024-02-02 16:54       ` Junio C Hamano
2024-02-07  9:57       ` Linus Arver
2024-02-07 16:34         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2024-02-07 16:38         ` Christian Couder
2024-02-07  9:40   ` Linus Arver
2024-02-07 16:11     ` Christian Couder
2024-02-07 20:48       ` Linus Arver
2024-02-08 15:03         ` Christian Couder
2024-02-08 20:42           ` Linus Arver

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