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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Siddharth Kannan" <kannan.siddharth12@gmail.com>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Jonathan Nieder" <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	"Zero King" <l2dy@macports.org>,
	"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] t0012: test "-h" with builtins
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 07:39:22 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq60gias11.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170530154432.rxzo5k5ti3jxmksx@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 30 May 2017 11:44:33 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> And the idea is that ranges like "-.." should work. TBH, I'm not sure
> how I feel about that, for exactly the reason that came up here: it
> makes it hard to syntactically differentiate the "-" shorthand from
> actual options. We do have @{-1} already for this purpose. I don't mind
> "-" as a shortcut for things like "git checkout -" or "git show -", but
> it feels like most of the benefit is lost when you're combining it with
> other operators.

All correct and that is why I haven't seriously considered merging
the topic further down (yet).  Things like -.. makes readers of the
commands go "Huh?", and "git tbdiff ..- -.." does not even work ;-)

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-30 22:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-29 11:45 [Bug] setup_git_env called without repository Zero King
2017-05-29 13:01 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-05-29 15:32   ` Jeff King
2017-05-30  5:09     ` [PATCH 0/8] consistent "-h" handling in builtins Jeff King
2017-05-30  5:11       ` [PATCH 1/8] am: handle "-h" argument earlier Jeff King
2017-05-30  5:43         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-05-30  5:12       ` [PATCH 2/8] credential: handle invalid arguments earlier Jeff King
2017-05-30  5:13       ` [PATCH 3/8] upload-archive: handle "-h" option early Jeff King
2017-05-30  5:15       ` [PATCH 4/8] remote-{ext,fd}: print usage message on invalid arguments Jeff King
2017-05-30  5:16       ` [PATCH 5/8] submodule--helper: show usage for "-h" Jeff King
2017-05-30  5:17       ` [PATCH 6/8] version: convert to parse-options Jeff King
2017-05-30 20:45         ` [PATCH 6.5?/8] version: move --build-options to a test helper Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-05-30 21:05           ` Jeff King
2017-05-31 15:27             ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-05-31 15:31               ` Jeff King
2017-05-31 15:46                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-05-31 17:51                   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-05-31 21:06                     ` Jeff King
2017-05-30  5:18       ` [PATCH 7/8] git: add hidden --list-builtins option Jeff King
2017-05-30  5:19       ` [PATCH 8/8] t0012: test "-h" with builtins Jeff King
2017-05-30  6:03         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-05-30  6:05           ` Jeff King
2017-05-30  6:08             ` Junio C Hamano
2017-05-30  6:15               ` Jeff King
2017-05-30 13:23                 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-05-30 15:27                   ` Jeff King
2017-05-30 15:44                     ` Jeff King
2017-05-30 22:39                       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-06-01  4:17                     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-06-01  5:35                       ` Jeff King
2017-06-01  5:42                       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-06-01  5:54                         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-06-01  6:25                           ` Jeff King
2017-06-01  7:51                             ` Junio C Hamano
2017-06-01  6:10                         ` Jeff King
2017-06-13 23:08         ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-06-14 10:03           ` Jeff King
2017-05-30  5:52       ` [PATCH 0/8] consistent "-h" handling in builtins Junio C Hamano

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