From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Greg Hurrell via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Greg Hurrell <greg@hurrell.net>,
Erik Cervin Edin <erik@cervined.in>,
Greg Hurrell <greg.hurrell@datadoghq.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] git-jump: pick a mode automatically when invoked without arguments
Date: Thu, 21 May 2026 23:00:46 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqlddczwtt.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pull.2108.v3.git.1779371110195.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> (Greg Hurrell via GitGitGadget's message of "Thu, 21 May 2026 13:45:09 +0000")
"Greg Hurrell via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
> * Removed stray # from README.
> * Don't both teaching "auto" to select "ws" mode, because it is always
> subsumed by "diff".
> * Update usage string to make clear that git jump --stdout foo is not a
> synonym for git jump --stdout auto foo, because distinguishing
> between foo as <mode> and foo as <arg> is fraught with ambiguity.
>
> In answer to Junio's question:
>
> > If more than one interesting cases apply, what happens, and what
> > should happen?
>
> it's an ordered choice (merge > diff).
After 'diff --quiet "$@"' says "nothing interesting between the
index and the working tree", I actually think it may be worth using
either 'git diff --check HEAD "$@"' or 'git diff --cached --check "$@"'
to see if ws fix is needed.
But I am not a target audience of this feature, so I'll let others
figure out what to do here.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-21 14:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-08 9:07 [PATCH] git-jump: pick a mode automatically when invoked without arguments Greg Hurrell via GitGitGadget
2026-05-08 14:13 ` Jeff King
2026-05-08 14:30 ` Greg Hurrell
2026-05-08 17:52 ` Jeff King
2026-05-14 15:40 ` Erik Cervin Edin
2026-05-19 9:03 ` Greg Hurrell
2026-05-19 21:22 ` Jeff King
2026-05-20 12:31 ` [PATCH v2] " Greg Hurrell via GitGitGadget
2026-05-21 1:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-05-21 1:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-05-21 13:45 ` [PATCH v3] " Greg Hurrell via GitGitGadget
2026-05-21 14:00 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2026-05-22 5:28 ` Jeff King
2026-05-22 7:33 ` Greg Hurrell
2026-05-26 21:33 ` Erik Cervin Edin
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