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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
	bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com>,
	Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] git: add --no-replace option to disable replacing
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:32:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AD2CD6A.2020509@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091011153227.8487.81803.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

Christian Couder schrieb:
> So there is no way to disable it for some commands, which is annoying
> when we want to get information about a commit that has been replaced.
> 
> For example:
> 
> $ git cat-file -p N
> 
> would output information about the replacement commit if commit N is
> replaced.
> 
> With the "--no-replace" option that this patch adds it is possible to
> get information about the original commit using:
> 
> $ git --no-replace cat-file -p N

I think it makes sense. But given the exotic nature of this option, I'd
prefer a more specific name, e.g., --no-replace-objects.

-- Hannes

      reply	other threads:[~2009-10-12  6:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-11 15:32 [RFC/PATCH] git: add --no-replace option to disable replacing Christian Couder
2009-10-12  6:32 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]

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