From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: "Keller\, Jacob E" <jacob.e.keller@intel•com>
Cc: "git\@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger•kernel.org>,
"peff\@peff.net" <peff@peff•net>,
"sunshine\@sunshineco.com" <sunshine@sunshineco•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] tag: support configuring --sort via .gitconfig
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 09:03:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqfvi2wqvq.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1405435933.9147.1.camel@jekeller-desk1.amr.corp.intel.com> (Jacob E. Keller's message of "Tue, 15 Jul 2014 14:52:13 +0000")
"Keller, Jacob E" <jacob.e.keller@intel•com> writes:
> On Mon, 2014-07-14 at 10:17 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:
>>
>> > On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 01:33:56PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>> >
>> >> I realize that I am reinventing the error-reporting wheel on a sleepy
>> >> Sunday afternoon without having thought about it much, so there is
>> >> probably some gotcha or case that makes this ugly, or perhaps it just
>> >> ends up verbose in practice. But one can dream.
>> >
>> > Just for fun...
>>
>> Yes, that is fun.
>>
>> I actually think your "In 'version:pefname' and 'wersion:refname',
>> we want be able to report 'pefname' and 'wersion' are misspelled,
>> and returning -1 or enum would not cut it" is a good argument. The
>> callee wants to have flexibility on _what_ to report, just as the
>> caller wants to have flexibility on _how_. In this particular code
>> path, I think the former far outweighs the latter, and my suggestion
>> I called "silly" might not be so silly but may have struck the right
>> balance. I dunno.
>>
>> If you absolutely need to have both, you would need something like
>> your approach, of course, but I am not sure if it is worth it.
>>
>> I am not sure how well this meshes with i18n (I know the "for fun"
>> does not even attempt to, but if we tried to, I suspect it may
>> become even uglier). We would also need to override both error and
>> warning routines and have the reporter tag the errors in these two
>> categories, no?
>
> Do we want to go this way?
I do not speak for Peff, but I personally think this is just a "fun"
demonstration, nothing more, and my gut feeling is that it would
make things unnecessary complex without much real gain to pursue it
further.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-15 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-11 22:55 [PATCH 1/3] tag: use skip_prefix instead of magic numbers Jacob Keller
2014-07-11 22:55 ` [PATCH 2/3] tag: fix --sort tests to use cat<<-\EOF format Jacob Keller
2014-07-11 22:55 ` [PATCH 3/3] tag: support configuring --sort via .gitconfig Jacob Keller
2014-07-13 3:29 ` Eric Sunshine
2014-07-13 17:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-07-13 17:33 ` Jeff King
2014-07-13 18:36 ` Jeff King
2014-07-14 17:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-07-15 14:52 ` Keller, Jacob E
2014-07-15 16:03 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-07-15 17:27 ` Keller, Jacob E
2014-07-15 18:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-07-15 18:31 ` Keller, Jacob E
2014-07-15 19:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-07-15 20:29 ` Keller, Jacob E
2014-07-15 21:31 ` Keller, Jacob E
2014-07-15 19:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-07-15 23:38 ` Jeff King
2014-07-12 1:02 ` [PATCH 1/3] tag: use skip_prefix instead of magic numbers Jeff King
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-07-11 20:51 Jacob Keller
2014-07-11 20:51 ` [PATCH 3/3] tag: support configuring --sort via .gitconfig Jacob Keller
2014-07-11 20:54 ` Keller, Jacob E
2014-07-11 21:06 ` Jeff King
2014-07-11 21:08 ` Keller, Jacob E
2014-07-11 22:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-07-11 22:30 ` Keller, Jacob E
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