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From: Will Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, peff@peff.net, raa.lkml@gmail.com,
	jrnieder@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] pretty: add infrastructure to allow format aliases
Date: Sun, 02 May 2010 10:01:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1272790910.4258.16.camel@walleee> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vhbmryp10.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 20:13 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I however wonder if we would want to be more helpful to the users to
> diagnose this error by saying something here with error(), instead of just
> letting the caller say "invalid --pretty format: %s".

I suppose there's not really any sane reason why we wouldn't be able to
die then and there. If we pass the original name into the recursive
function, then the message could be:

"invalid --pretty format: %s references an alias which points to itself"

sound like okay wording?

-- 
-- Will

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-02  9:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-30 19:35 [PATCH v3 0/5] pretty: format aliases Will Palmer
2010-04-30 19:35 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] pretty: add conditional %C?colorname placeholders Will Palmer
2010-05-02  3:12   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-05-02  9:31     ` Will Palmer
2010-04-30 19:35 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] pretty: make %H/%h/etc respect --abbrev[-commit] Will Palmer
2010-05-02  3:13   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-05-02  4:45     ` Jeff King
2010-05-02  5:33       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-05-02  5:40         ` Jeff King
2010-05-02  7:52         ` Will Palmer
2010-05-02  8:50     ` Will Palmer
2010-05-02  9:11       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-05-02  9:17         ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-04-30 19:35 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] pretty: make it easier to add new formats Will Palmer
2010-04-30 19:35 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] pretty: add infrastructure to allow format aliases Will Palmer
2010-05-02  3:13   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-05-02  9:01     ` Will Palmer [this message]
2010-04-30 19:35 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] pretty: add aliases for pretty formats Will Palmer
2010-05-02  3:13   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-05-02  4:47   ` Jeff King
2010-05-02  3:12 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] pretty: format aliases Junio C Hamano

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