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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Øystein Walle" <oystwa@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] pre-commit hook updates
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 13:56:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141126185610.GA1734@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqfvd5res5.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:35:22AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I _think_ "give only info that is necessary" is cleaner as an
> interface in theory, but have two niggles myself:
> 
>  1. the hooks must do the "argument parsing" loop (you already
>     mentioned this);
> 
>  2. the hooks cannot tell if the lack of "amending" argument is
>     because the version of Git predates that "amending" hint
>     support, or because the user action is a straight "commit" not
>     an "commit --amend".
> 
> In any case, I do not have strong preference myself.

That agrees with my thinking exactly.

At this point since both of us seem on the fence, I am happy to let
Øystein, as the person who is actually writing the patch, decide.

-Peff

      reply	other threads:[~2014-11-26 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-25 22:51 [PATCH 0/2] pre-commit hook updates Øystein Walle
     [not found] ` <cover.1416955873.git.oystwa@gmail.com>
2014-11-25 22:51   ` [PATCH 1/2] t7503: use write_script to generate hook scripts Øystein Walle
2014-11-26  1:25     ` Eric Sunshine
2014-11-26  4:51     ` Jeff King
2014-11-26 18:12       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-26 19:03         ` Jeff King
2014-11-26 20:07           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-25 22:51   ` [PATCH 2/2] commit: inform pre-commit that --amend was used Øystein Walle
2014-11-26  1:36     ` Eric Sunshine
2014-11-26  1:32 ` [PATCH 0/2] pre-commit hook updates Eric Sunshine
2014-11-26  4:52 ` Jeff King
2014-11-26 18:35   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-26 18:56     ` Jeff King [this message]

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