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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>
Cc: David Turner <dturner@twopensource•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] log: add log.follow config option
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2015 10:47:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqy4ix3zh8.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpqr3op676u.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (Matthieu Moy's message of "Fri, 03 Jul 2015 09:17:45 +0200")

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr> writes:

> David Turner <dturner@twopensource•com> writes:
>
>> Twitter's history is almost completely linear, so it's useful for us.  
>>
>> Since it looks like the patch won't be useful outside of our context,
>> I'll just rewrite it to check the pathspec count, and not upstream it
>> until follow becomes more general.
>
> As long as it's an opt-in and that the documentation states the
> limitations clearly enough, I think it makes sense to me to have this
> upstream.

Perhaps.  But at least "log -- 1 2" and "log --" should not be broken
for those that set the configuration.

Unless you are counting these as also "limitations", that is.

      reply	other threads:[~2015-07-03 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-01 19:03 [PATCH] log: add log.follow config option David Turner
2015-07-01 21:16 ` Matthieu Moy
2015-07-01 21:19   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-02 18:43     ` David Turner
2015-07-03  7:17       ` Matthieu Moy
2015-07-03 17:47         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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