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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail•com>
Cc: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily•org>,
	git <git@vger•kernel.org>, Jeff King <peff@peff•net>,
	Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum•mit.edu>,
	Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com>,
	Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 02/10] replace: add --graft option
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 07:22:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqmwcg561j.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD0_m5aFVcBQr3d9pXR=9rLjAVPGrj=UsBYFcnTQFwNKGA@mail.gmail.com> (Christian Couder's message of "Fri, 11 Jul 2014 10:59:32 +0200")

Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail•com> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> wrote:
>
>>> "Making sure A's parent is B" would be an
>>> idempotent operation, no?  Why not just make sure A's parent is
>>> already B and report "Your wish has been granted" to the user?
>
> ... and here you say we should report "your wish has been granted"...

Normal way for "git replace" to report that is to exit with status 0
and without any noise, I would think.

>>> Why would it be simpler for the user to get an error, inspect the
>>> situation and realize that his wish has been granted after all?
>
> ... but for me reporting to the user "your wish has been granted" and
> warning (or errorring out) saying "the new commit would be the same as
> the old one" are nearly the same thing.
>
> So I wonder what exactly you are not happy with.

See above.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-11 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-07  6:35 [PATCH v6 00/10] Add --graft option to git replace Christian Couder
2014-07-07  6:35 ` [PATCH v6 01/10] replace: cleanup redirection style in tests Christian Couder
2014-07-07  6:35 ` [PATCH v6 02/10] replace: add --graft option Christian Couder
2014-07-09 14:59   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-07-10  9:30     ` Christian Couder
2014-07-10 16:51       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-07-10 17:36         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-07-11  8:59           ` Christian Couder
2014-07-11 14:22             ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-07-11 16:24               ` Christian Couder
2014-07-11 18:25                 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-07-11 18:29                   ` Jeff King
2014-07-07  6:35 ` [PATCH v6 03/10] replace: add test for --graft Christian Couder
2014-07-07 22:16   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-07-08  5:36     ` Christian Couder
2014-07-07  6:35 ` [PATCH v6 04/10] Documentation: replace: add --graft option Christian Couder
2014-07-07  6:35 ` [PATCH v6 05/10] contrib: add convert-grafts-to-replace-refs.sh Christian Couder
2014-07-07  6:35 ` [PATCH v6 06/10] replace: remove signature when using --graft Christian Couder
2014-07-07  6:35 ` [PATCH v6 07/10] replace: add test for --graft with signed commit Christian Couder
2014-07-07  6:35 ` [PATCH v6 08/10] commit: add for_each_mergetag() Christian Couder
2014-07-07 22:30   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-07-08  5:53     ` Christian Couder
2014-07-07  6:35 ` [PATCH v6 09/10] replace: check mergetags when using --graft Christian Couder
2014-07-07 22:28   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-07-08  5:35     ` Christian Couder
2014-07-07  6:35 ` [PATCH v6 10/10] replace: add test for --graft with a mergetag Christian Couder

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