From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Cc: "Øystein Walle" <oystwa@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] branch, for-each-ref: add option to omit empty lines
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 10:17:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqjzywg7sg.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44e7ac0f-2fd9-fd01-89da-a8d036d2e400@dunelm.org.uk> (Phillip Wood's message of "Fri, 31 Mar 2023 17:33:37 +0100")
Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:
> Do the empty lines in the output serve any useful purpose? If not then
> it might be better just to suppress them unconditionally rather than
> adding a new command line option.
It's a nice egg of columbus.
It however theoretically can break an existing use case where the
user correlates the output with a list of refs they externally
prepared (e.g. "for-each-ref --format... a b c" shows "A", "", and
"C", and the user knows "b" produced ""). I do not know how likely
such users complain, though, and if there is nobody who relies on
the current behaviour, surely "unconditionally omit" is a very
tempting approach to take.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-31 17:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-30 11:21 [PATCH 0/2] branch, for-each-ref: add option to omit empty lines Øystein Walle
2023-03-30 11:21 ` [PATCH 1/2] ref-filter: remove unused ref_format member Øystein Walle
2023-03-30 15:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-30 15:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-31 10:37 ` Øystein Walle
2023-03-31 10:57 ` ZheNing Hu
2023-03-31 16:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-06 17:08 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] branch, for-each-ref: add option to omit empty lines Øystein Walle
2023-04-06 17:08 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] ref-filter: remove unused ref_format member Øystein Walle
2023-04-06 17:08 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] branch, for-each-ref: add option to omit empty lines Øystein Walle
2023-04-06 18:24 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] " Junio C Hamano
2023-04-07 17:53 ` [PATCH v3] branch, for-each-ref, tag: " Øystein Walle
2023-04-07 18:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-12 23:44 ` Andrei Rybak
2023-04-13 7:17 ` Øystein Walle
2023-04-13 15:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-30 11:21 ` [PATCH 2/2] branch, for-each-ref: " Øystein Walle
2023-03-30 15:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-30 18:25 ` Jeff King
2023-03-30 18:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-31 8:32 ` Øystein Walle
2023-03-31 15:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-30 17:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-31 16:33 ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-31 17:17 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2023-04-06 16:55 ` Øystein Walle
2023-04-06 17:12 ` Jeff King
2023-04-06 18:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-10 19:56 ` Jeff King
2023-04-06 18:07 ` Junio C Hamano
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