Re: Branch shuffling after 1.6.6 release plans

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 12:30:34PM +0100, Thomas Rast wrote:

> >      * tr/reset-checkout-patch (2009-11-19) 1 commit
> >       - {checkout,reset} -p: make patch direction configurable
> > 
> >      I do not particularly like a configuration like this that changes the
> >      behaviour of a command in a drastic way---it will make helping others
> >      much harder.
> 
> I think it's not quite as drastic as you make it sound ;-)
> 
> But I don't need this feature, and Peff mentioned something about
> being happy except for the patch editing mode.  Unfortunately the
> above pretty much hits the limits of add--interactive's flexibility,
> so an interactive direction toggling feature would need some rewiring.

Let's drop it for now. I'm reasonably happy, and I don't want to waste
your time trying to do something more invasive. And I haven't seen any
evidence that anybody else is dissatisfied with what's in master.

-Peff