Re: [PATCH] git-jump: pass "merge" arguments to ls-files

[Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 11:35:47AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> We currently throw away any arguments given to "git jump merge". We
> should instead pass them along to ls-files, since they're likely to be
> pathspecs. This matches the behavior of "git jump diff", etc.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> ---
> Just a little wart I noticed while doing a really tricky merge today.

This is hilarious to me, because I wrote the exact same patch to skip
some conflicts while resolving what I can only assume is the same merge.

> diff --git a/contrib/git-jump/git-jump b/contrib/git-jump/git-jump
> index 931b0fe3a9..92dbd4cde1 100755
> --- a/contrib/git-jump/git-jump
> +++ b/contrib/git-jump/git-jump
> @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ mode_diff() {
>  }
>
>  mode_merge() {
> -	git ls-files -u |
> +	git ls-files -u "$@" |

It's kind of unfortunate (maybe not?) that a caller could now run:

    git jump merge --no-unmerged

and get the same results albeit *much* slower. We could limit ourselves
to only accepting pathspecs (by writing `git ls-files -u -- "$@"`), but
that feels overly restrictive. We could also say `"$@" -u`, but that
breaks if the caller writes `--` or `--end-of-options`.

So I think that what you and I both wrote is least bad, but it does make
me cringe a little bit at being able to pass `--no-unmerged` to `git
jump merge`.

Anyway, I know that it's late in the -rc cycle, but I'd be happy to see
something like this get picked up once Junio tags 2.34 and we have
stabilized a little bit.

Thanks,
Taylor