From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-pull.sh: overhaul error handling when no candidates are found Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:28:49 -0500 Message-ID: <20091112152849.GA25352@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <1257945756.26362.79.camel@heerbeest> <48B54636-1825-48B3-BECD-4150A55B013F@dbservice.com> <1257965806.26362.132.camel@heerbeest> <1257968052.26362.155.camel@heerbeest> <1258035449.26362.273.camel@heerbeest> <20091112155310.7836c388@perceptron> <20091112150626.GA24848@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20091112162558.6b1c4a43@perceptron> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Jan Nieuwenhuizen , Tomas Carnecky , git list , Junio C Hamano To: Jan =?utf-8?Q?Kr=C3=BCger?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 12 16:29:13 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N8bbi-0004jT-3s for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:29:10 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752986AbZKLP27 convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:28:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752981AbZKLP27 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:28:59 -0500 Received: from peff.net ([208.65.91.99]:52514 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752979AbZKLP26 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:28:58 -0500 Received: (qmail 22357 invoked by uid 107); 12 Nov 2009 15:32:50 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.40) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:32:50 -0500 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:28:49 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091112162558.6b1c4a43@perceptron> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 04:25:58PM +0100, Jan Kr=C3=BCger wrote: > > Personally, I would go the other way: give them something they can = cut > > and paste on the command line, like: >=20 > A matter of taste, I suppose. The user has to edit the lines anyway > since they contain placeholders. Oh, true. I was thinking we filled them in with the right values, but o= f course we don't know what those values are (if we did, we wouldn't be bugging the user...). So ignore what I said. > > Isn't branch.*.rebase a boolean value? >=20 > Argh! Of course it is. Note to self: don't write patches in a hurry. > Disregard everything I said. I thought I was seeing incorrect behavio= r > in what Jan (N.) reported... If it makes you feel better, the reason I noticed your error so quickly is that I made the _exact_ same one while doing a patch in that area a month or two ago. -Peff