From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>,
Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/13] revert: Catch incompatible command-line options early
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 15:02:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110702200209.GA16818@elie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110702113008.GA21526@elie>
Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>> Although pick_commits checks the validity of the
>> replay_opts strucutre before before starting its operation, this is
>> fragile design because the validity of the replay_opts structure
>> depends on pick_commits being called before anything else.
>
> Thanks, that's a bit more concrete. But it's not fragile, is it?
> pick_commits() is the entry point to the cherry-pick machinery ---
> anything that uses a struct replay_opts is called indirectly by
> pick_commits(), no?
Perhaps the idea is that in the future, there will be multiple entry
points?
Again, the questions the reader will have are:
- what is wrong with the code? (i.e., assume I'm a total stick in
the mud and convince me there needs to be *some* change)
- why does the current code work at all?
- what is the proposed fix?
- how will it work better?
- what are the downsides, and how does the patch mitigate them?
Exact wording does not matter, as long as those questions are
answered.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-02 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-21 13:04 [PATCH 00/13] Sequencer with continuation features Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-06-21 13:04 ` [PATCH 01/13] advice: Introduce error_resolve_conflict Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-06-21 15:55 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-06-21 18:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-02 9:44 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-02 10:09 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-06-21 13:04 ` [PATCH 02/13] revert: Factor out add_message_to_msg function Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-06-21 15:58 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-06-21 19:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-21 13:04 ` [PATCH 03/13] revert: Don't check lone argument in get_encoding Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-06-21 16:03 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-06-21 13:04 ` [PATCH 04/13] revert: Propogate errors upwards from do_pick_commit Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-06-21 16:22 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-06-21 19:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-21 19:32 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-06-21 20:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-02 10:31 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-06-21 13:04 ` [PATCH 05/13] revert: Eliminate global "commit" variable Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-06-21 16:52 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-06-21 19:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-21 13:04 ` [PATCH 06/13] revert: Rename no_replay to record_origin Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-06-21 13:04 ` [PATCH 07/13] revert: Introduce struct to keep command-line options Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-06-21 16:58 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-06-21 19:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-21 13:04 ` [PATCH 08/13] revert: Separate cmdline parsing from functional code Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-06-21 17:00 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-06-21 13:04 ` [PATCH 09/13] revert: Catch incompatible command-line options early Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-06-21 17:04 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-02 9:47 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-02 9:53 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-02 10:04 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-02 11:19 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-02 11:30 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-02 20:02 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2011-06-21 13:04 ` [PATCH 10/13] revert: Persist data for continuation Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-06-21 17:11 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-06-21 19:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-21 13:04 ` [PATCH 11/13] revert: Introduce a layer of indirection over pick_commits Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-06-21 19:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-21 13:04 ` [PATCH 12/13] revert: Introduce skip-all to cleanup sequencer data Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-06-21 20:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-02 6:24 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-04 4:59 ` Miles Bader
2011-07-05 10:47 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-06-21 13:04 ` [RFC PATCH 13/13] revert: Introduce --continue to continue the operation Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-06-21 17:19 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-06-21 15:48 ` [PATCH 00/13] Sequencer with continuation features Jonathan Nieder
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