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From: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
To: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] builtin/grep: allow implicit --no-index
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 12:10:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160111111015.GA10612@hank> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8Bs3z0Gk3CjhyZGfOLA7R3pZQz7K5gk4BTytvYkZeyBtQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 01/11, Duy Nguyen wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 9:19 PM, Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Currently when git grep is used outside of a git repository without the
> > --no-index option git simply dies.  For convenience, implicitly make git
> > grep behave like git grep --no-index when it is called outside of a git
> > repository.
>
> Should we have a line about this behavior in git-grep.txt, maybe the
> description section?

Yes good point, the behavior change should definitely be documented.

> I wonder if anybody wants the old behavior (e.g.
> non-zero exit code when running outside a repo). If there is such a
> case (*), we may need an option to revert it back (--no-no-index seems
> ridiculous, maybe --use-index). The safest way though, is introduce a
> new option like --use-index=<always|optional|never> then you can make
> an grep alias with --use-index=optional.

You're right.  I couldn't think of a reason why someone would rely on
the old behavior, but maybe I missed something.  I like the idea of
introducing the --use-index=... option.

How should we handle priority between --no-index and --use-index,
should we just give --no-index priority if it is set and ignore the
new --use-index option, or is there some other way?

> (*) I've been hitting really weird real-world use cases so I'm a bit paranoid..
> --
> Duy

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-11 11:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-10 14:19 [PATCH 0/3] Implicitly use --no-index if git grep is used outside of repo Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-10 14:19 ` [PATCH 1/3] t7810: correct --no-index test Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-10 14:19 ` [PATCH 2/3] builtin/grep: rename use_index to no_index Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-11 17:33   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-10 14:19 ` [PATCH 3/3] builtin/grep: allow implicit --no-index Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-11  0:50   ` Duy Nguyen
2016-01-11 11:10     ` Thomas Gummerer [this message]
2016-01-11 17:26       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-11 17:48         ` Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-11 17:59           ` Jeff King
2016-01-11 18:37             ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-11  1:54   ` Eric Sunshine
2016-01-11 11:29     ` Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-11 17:30   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-11 19:28     ` Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-11 19:35       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-11 19:44         ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-11 21:01           ` Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-11 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Introduce a --use-index command line argument in git grep Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-11 17:00   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] t7810: correct --no-index test Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-11 17:00   ` [PATCH v2 2/3] builtin/grep: rename use_index to no_index Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-11 17:00   ` [PATCH v2 3/3] builtin/grep: introduce --use-index argument Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-11 21:26 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] grep: add fallbackToNoIndex config option Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-11 21:26   ` [PATCH v3 1/2] t7810: correct --no-index test Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-11 21:26   ` [PATCH v3 2/2] builtin/grep: add grep.fallbackToNoIndex config Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-11 21:48     ` Jeff King
2016-01-11 22:35       ` Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-12 10:40   ` [PATCH v4 0/2] grep: add fallbackToNoIndex config option Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-12 10:40     ` [PATCH v4 1/2] t7810: correct --no-index test Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-12 10:40     ` [PATCH v4 2/2] builtin/grep: add grep.fallbackToNoIndex config Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-12 12:11       ` Jeff King
2016-01-12 15:50         ` Thomas Gummerer

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