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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>,
	Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Paul-Sebastian Ungureanu <ungureanupaulsebastian@gmail.com>,
	Joel Teichroeb <joel@teichroeb.net>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Matthew Kraai <mkraai@its.jnj.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] stash: setup default diff output format if necessary
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 23:48:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190322034837.GA20091@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqtvfvr3oi.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 12:25:17PM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > There is a "set_default" callback that was added by 6c374008b1
> > (diff_opt: track whether flags have been set explicitly, 2013-05-10),
> > but it looks like it was never actually used. I think the theory is that
> > cases like this could do their tweaking in such a callback. But I think
> > it makes sense to follow the lead of builtin/diff.c for the immediate
> > fix, and we can look at using set_default as a separate topic.
> 
> I agree with the conclusion.  I wouldn't be surprised if this is one
> of the things that was once used but left behind when the last
> caller disappeared, though.

I wondered, too, but `git log --pickaxe-regex -S'set_default[^_]'` seems
to think it was purely aspirational. :)

That calls for a little extra caution when starting to use it (because
it has not really been tested), but from a quick look I cannot see how
it would go wrong.

-Peff

      reply	other threads:[~2019-03-22  3:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-19 19:05 [REGRESSION ps/stash-in-c] git stash show -v Denton Liu
2019-03-19 23:18 ` Thomas Gummerer
2019-03-20  1:00   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-03-20 21:45     ` Thomas Gummerer
2019-03-20  1:04   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-03-20  5:04   ` Jeff King
2019-03-20  9:30     ` Duy Nguyen
2019-03-20 21:59     ` Thomas Gummerer
2019-03-20 22:49   ` [PATCH v2] stash: setup default diff output format if necessary Thomas Gummerer
2019-03-20 23:04     ` Denton Liu
2019-03-20 23:09     ` Denton Liu
2019-03-28 20:45       ` Thomas Gummerer
2019-03-21  9:51     ` Jeff King
2019-03-22  3:25       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-03-22  3:48         ` Jeff King [this message]

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