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From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, j6t@kdbg.org, jnareb@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] bisect: Add support for a --no-checkout option.
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 06:42:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201108010642.03651.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v39hmkkth.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Monday 01 August 2011 03:00:10 Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> When used without "--no-checkout" option, "bisect" need to check-out the
> candidate version. What good would it do if it does _not_ update HEAD when
> it does so?
> 
> While you are correct to point out --[no-]checkout is a boolean option,
> this "we do not update HEAD but update this other thing" is not orthogonal
> to the option. It does not make sense when we actually touch the working
> tree.

Yeah.

> My preference is not to play games with "we can specify a ref other than
> HEAD" until somebody can demonstrate why it is a feature "because we need
> to be able to do so in such and such times", not merely "because we can".

So you want Jon to post a patch series with only a "--no-checkout" option. Ok.

Thanks,
Christian.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-01  4:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-30  8:28 [PATCH 0/5] bisect: Add support for a --no-checkout option Jon Seymour
2011-07-30  8:28 ` [PATCH 1/5] bisect: add tests to document expected behaviour in presence of broken trees Jon Seymour
2011-07-30  8:28 ` [PATCH 2/5] bisect: introduce support for --no-checkout=<ref> option Jon Seymour
2011-07-30 13:49   ` Christian Couder
2011-07-30  8:28 ` [PATCH 3/5] bisect: introduce --no-checkout[=<ref>] support into porcelain Jon Seymour
2011-07-30 14:34   ` Christian Couder
2011-07-30 17:00     ` Jon Seymour
2011-07-31  0:36       ` Christian Couder
2011-08-01  0:53         ` Junio C Hamano
2011-08-01  4:35           ` Christian Couder
2011-07-30  8:28 ` [PATCH 4/5] bisect: add tests for the --no-checkout option Jon Seymour
2011-07-30  8:28 ` [PATCH 5/5] bisect: add documentation for --no-checkout[=<ref>] option Jon Seymour
2011-07-30  8:30 ` [PATCH 0/5] bisect: Add support for a --no-checkout option Jon Seymour
2011-07-30 13:48 ` Christian Couder
2011-07-30 13:58   ` Jon Seymour
2011-07-30 14:19     ` Christian Couder
2011-08-01  1:00       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-08-01  4:42         ` Christian Couder [this message]
2011-08-01  5:27         ` Jon Seymour
2011-08-01 17:33           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-08-01 22:19             ` Jon Seymour
2011-08-01 23:33               ` Junio C Hamano
2011-08-02  1:15                 ` Jon Seymour
2011-08-02  1:41                   ` Jon Seymour
2011-08-02 17:53                     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-08-02 21:27                       ` Jon Seymour

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