From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Price Subject: Re: Unapplied patches reminder Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 22:03:59 -0500 Message-ID: <20091207030359.GK30538@dr-wily.mit.edu> References: <7voco4gtxd.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Geoffrey Thomas , git@vger.kernel.org, Nanako Shiraishi To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Dec 07 04:04:28 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 1NHTti-0001nD-O4 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:04:27 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934461AbZLGDEC (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Dec 2009 22:04:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934457AbZLGDEB (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Dec 2009 22:04:01 -0500 Received: from BISCAYNE-ONE-STATION.MIT.EDU ([18.7.7.80]:52457 "EHLO biscayne-one-station.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934455AbZLGDEA (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Dec 2009 22:04:00 -0500 Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (OUTGOING-AUTH.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.103]) by biscayne-one-station.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id nB733Wp1018020; Sun, 6 Dec 2009 22:03:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (LINERVA.MIT.EDU [18.181.0.232]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as price@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id nB7348nB008160; Sun, 6 Dec 2009 22:04:08 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7voco4gtxd.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.42 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.00 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio wrote: > > From: Geoffrey Thomas > > Subject: [PATCH] diffcore-order: Default the order file to .git/info/order. > > Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:49:48 -0400 > > Message-ID: <1252799388-16295-1-git-send-email-geofft@mit.edu> > > > > Since order files tend to be useful for all operations in the > > project/repository, add a default location for the order file, so that > > you don't have to specify -O on every diff or similar > > operation. > > Except that "$GIT_DIR/info/order" is a bit too generic a name ("eh, > 'order'? Order of what?"), I do not think this will hurt, as no existing > repositories would have such a file that would cause any behaviour change > to existing users. The reason I did not queue it was because there wasn't > any discussion on it (not even the filename being too generic) which was > an indication that not many people are interested in such a feature. > > That of course can be remedied by interested people speaking out. I never use the -O option, but if this feature were available I think I would use it. It would make it possible to configure a helpful order once -- for example, putting a changelog file first in order to compare it with the commit message -- and then always use it without effort. A less generic name might be 'difforder'. Greg