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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn•nl>
Cc: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee•org>, Jeff King <peff@peff•net>,
	git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] remote: add new --fetch option for set-url
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 15:50:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqmw75ligb.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4081616.27DjsMG0kb@al> (Peter Wu's message of "Tue, 02 Dec 2014 18:45 +0100")

Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn•nl> writes:

> On Saturday 29 November 2014 13:31:18 Philip Oakley wrote:
>> From: "Peter Wu" <peter@lekensteyn•nl>
>> > Ok, I will make a clear note about the default (without --only) 
>> > behavior
>> > having weird behavior for historical reasons. Are you really OK with
>> > --only=both? It sounds a bit odd (mathematically speaking it is 
>> > correct
>> > as fetch and push are both partitions that form the whole set if you
>> > ignore the historical behavior).
>> >
>> How about :
>> 
>> s/--only/--direction/
>> 
>> or some suitable abbreviation (--dirn ?)
>
> In the next version of the patch I went for three separate options,
> --fetch, --push and --both:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/260213
> (Juno, Jeff: ping?)
>
> The option --direction=<fetch|push|both> is a bit longer and --dirn can
> be mistaken for "directory N".

If we have to have three variants, --{fetch,push,both} would be the
easiest to understand among the possibilities listed above, I would
think.

      reply	other threads:[~2014-12-02 23:50 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
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 [this message]

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