From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>,
Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com>,
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] merge-base: teach "--fork-point" mode
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 10:00:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131026090034.GH10779@serenity.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq61sljakf.fsf_-_@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 02:38:08PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> It also comes with a documentation update. The option is not called
> --reflog but --fork-point; naming a feature after what it does
> (i.e. it finds the fork point) is a lot more sensible than naming
> it after how it happens to do what it does (i.e. it does so by
> peeking into the reflog).
I think the new name is likely to confuse normal users - when talking
about a branch, you can talk about where it forked from and in that case
it normally means the merge-base of that branch and master.
The --reflog name has the advantage that it makes clear that this is
looking at something more than the commit graph and I don't think
--fork-point does imply that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-26 9:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-16 18:53 [PATCH] rebase: use reflog to find common base with upstream John Keeping
2013-10-16 19:24 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-10-16 19:44 ` John Keeping
2013-10-21 5:03 ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-10-21 11:24 ` John Keeping
2013-10-22 6:24 ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-10-24 19:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-24 19:11 ` [PATCH 0/2] finding the fork point from reflog entries Junio C Hamano
2013-10-24 19:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] merge-base: use OPT_CMDMODE and clarify the command line parsing Junio C Hamano
2013-10-24 19:11 ` [PATCH 2/2] merge-base: "--reflog" mode finds fork point from reflog entries Junio C Hamano
2013-10-24 21:01 ` Eric Sunshine
2013-10-24 21:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-24 21:43 ` Eric Sunshine
2013-10-24 22:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-24 22:21 ` [PATCH v2 " Junio C Hamano
2013-10-25 7:12 ` Johannes Sixt
2013-10-25 8:09 ` John Keeping
2013-10-25 8:17 ` Johannes Sixt
2013-10-25 16:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-25 21:38 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] merge-base: teach "--fork-point" mode Junio C Hamano
2013-10-25 21:56 ` Eric Sunshine
2013-10-26 5:15 ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-10-28 14:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-26 9:00 ` John Keeping [this message]
2013-10-28 19:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-29 8:51 ` John Keeping
2013-10-29 20:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-24 20:54 ` [PATCH 0/2] finding the fork point from reflog entries John Keeping
2013-10-24 21:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-24 21:31 ` John Keeping
2013-10-24 21:40 ` John Keeping
2013-10-24 21:50 ` John Keeping
2013-10-25 2:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-22 5:40 ` [PATCH] rebase: use reflog to find common base with upstream Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-10-24 20:26 ` John Keeping
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