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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Cc: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	"Git List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Stefan Beller" <sbeller@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/14] format-patch: add --range-diff option to embed diff in cover letter
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 13:32:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqeffrukd6.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cS-haNwJha44gncB9PrXRPcEPuqDVGLgKii29h=abq6sA@mail.gmail.com> (Eric Sunshine's message of "Wed, 25 Jul 2018 15:30:44 -0400")

Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:

> I did consider other approaches, such as a more generic option. For
> example, --embed=range-diff:<prev>. I also considered supporting more
> complex use-cases. For instance, git-range-diff itself accepts the two
> ranges in several formats ("a..b c..d" or "x...z" or "i j k"), plus
> the creation-factor can be tweaked, so I weighed ways of incorporating
> all that detail into the single argument to --range-diff.
>
> However, those are all difficult to use (onerous to type and remember)
> and difficult to document. Thus, I opted for simplicity of individual,
> straight-forward options (--interdiff, --range-diff,
> --creation-factor), which are easy to type, remember, and document.

Yes, that matches my conclusion that it is OK to have these on
separate options that can grow as many meta-diff formats we would
support.


  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-25 20:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-22  9:57 [PATCH 00/14] format-patch: add --interdiff and --range-diff options Eric Sunshine
2018-07-22  9:57 ` [PATCH 01/14] format-patch: allow additional generated content in make_cover_letter() Eric Sunshine
2018-07-22  9:57 ` [PATCH 02/14] format-patch: add --interdiff option to embed diff in cover letter Eric Sunshine
2018-07-22 10:31   ` Eric Sunshine
2018-07-23 16:02   ` Duy Nguyen
2018-07-23 19:18     ` Eric Sunshine
2018-07-23 21:36       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-07-22  9:57 ` [PATCH 03/14] format-patch: teach --interdiff to respect -v/--reroll-count Eric Sunshine
2018-07-23 16:12   ` Duy Nguyen
2018-07-23 19:32     ` Eric Sunshine
2018-07-22  9:57 ` [PATCH 04/14] interdiff: teach show_interdiff() to indent interdiff Eric Sunshine
2018-07-22  9:57 ` [PATCH 05/14] log-tree: show_log: make commentary block delimiting reusable Eric Sunshine
2018-07-22  9:57 ` [PATCH 06/14] format-patch: allow --interdiff to apply to a lone-patch Eric Sunshine
2018-07-23 16:22   ` Duy Nguyen
2018-07-23 19:46     ` Eric Sunshine
2018-07-22  9:57 ` [PATCH 07/14] range-diff: respect diff_option.file rather than assuming 'stdout' Eric Sunshine
2018-07-23 22:59   ` Stefan Beller
2018-07-23 23:20     ` Eric Sunshine
2018-07-25 18:25       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-07-22  9:57 ` [PATCH 08/14] range-diff: publish default creation factor Eric Sunshine
2018-07-22  9:57 ` [PATCH 09/14] range-diff: relieve callers of low-level configuration burden Eric Sunshine
2018-07-22  9:57 ` [PATCH 10/14] format-patch: add --range-diff option to embed diff in cover letter Eric Sunshine
2018-07-23 16:28   ` Duy Nguyen
2018-07-23 19:58     ` Eric Sunshine
2018-07-25 17:29       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-07-25 19:30         ` Eric Sunshine
2018-07-25 20:32           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2018-07-25 17:38       ` Duy Nguyen
2018-07-22  9:57 ` [PATCH 11/14] format-patch: extend --range-diff to accept revision range Eric Sunshine
2018-07-25 20:53   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-07  9:15     ` Eric Sunshine
2018-07-22  9:57 ` [PATCH 12/14] format-patch: teach --range-diff to respect -v/--reroll-count Eric Sunshine
2018-07-22  9:57 ` [PATCH 13/14] format-patch: add --creation-factor tweak for --range-diff Eric Sunshine
2018-07-22  9:57 ` [PATCH 14/14] format-patch: allow --range-diff to apply to a lone-patch Eric Sunshine
2018-07-25 21:07   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-07  8:46     ` Eric Sunshine
2018-07-23 16:32 ` [PATCH 00/14] format-patch: add --interdiff and --range-diff options Duy Nguyen
2018-07-23 20:03   ` Eric Sunshine

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