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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail•com>
Cc: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail•com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>,
	Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mergetool: run prompt only if guessed tool
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 09:52:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqppk80z0m.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJDDKr5P7crudFiAa7Lu4CYmDWgZ-drdkiOfusFHioTF9co2Nw@mail.gmail.com> (David Aguilar's message of "Wed, 23 Apr 2014 00:58:51 -0700")

David Aguilar <davvid@gmail•com> writes:

> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> wrote:
> ...
>> Thanks for CC'ing Charles, by the way.  I think his point about
>> mentioning the change of default somewhere in the documentation
>> has some merits, and it can be done in a follow-up patch on top.
>
> Another thing that crossed my mind is that we have -y for --no-prompt
> because --prompt was the original default. Maybe a -i (?) shortcut for
> the interactive --prompt can be added to make the "need to skip some
> when resolving" use case easier to activate.

Hmm, perhaps, but is "do we prompt to give a chance to the user to
say 'no, I am not interested in running the tool to that path'" the
only interactivity in the overall end-user experience in using the
mergetool?  To end-users, both interaction with the mergetool
front-end and interaction with individual back-end taken together
would comprise the whole end-user experience, so "--interactive"
option that is implied by "-i" short-cut may make them expect a
behaviour from the backend that is more interactive than without,
which would not be the case, so....

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-23 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-21  0:17 [PATCH 0/2] Simple default fixes for v2.0 Felipe Contreras
2014-04-21  0:17 ` [PATCH 1/2] merge: enable defaulttoupstream by default Felipe Contreras
2014-04-22 19:53   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-21  0:17 ` [PATCH 2/2] mergetool: run prompt only if guessed tool Felipe Contreras
2014-04-22  4:59   ` David Aguilar
2014-04-22  6:01     ` Charles Bailey
2014-04-22  6:24       ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-22  6:55         ` Charles Bailey
2014-04-22  6:53           ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-22  7:30             ` Charles Bailey
2014-04-22  7:56               ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-23  7:56                 ` Charles Bailey
2014-04-23 17:07                   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-24 18:30                     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-22 17:19     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-23  7:58       ` David Aguilar
2014-04-23 16:52         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-04-22 17:32     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-22 19:55       ` Junio C Hamano

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