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From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Christian Couder" <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>,
	"Santi Béjar" <sbejar@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] git-what: explain what to do next
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 09:56:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <483EC405.6090400@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vlk1tpug5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:
> 
>> It seems not very friendly to just "return 1" when not bisecting.
>> And before my last patch to use BISECT_START to check if we are bisecting, 
>> it would perhaps have been better to use 'test -f "$GIT_DIR/BISECT_NAMES"'.
> 
> The reason for this silence is because Santi wants to call potential
> culprits in turn and stop when one responds "Yeah, I am the guilty one who
> threw a monkey wrench into the user's workflow".  For that to work, "No,
> the user is not in the middle of any interaction with me" response needs
> to be silent.

Hrm.  Do both?  Have the normal interactive user command
be more verbose, but let the pseudo-scripted version supply
an additional --status-only flag as it sequences through
the status checks?

jdl

      reply	other threads:[~2008-05-29 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-27  8:34 [RFC/PATCH] git-what: explain what to do next Santi Béjar
2008-05-27 10:53 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-27 12:58   ` Santi Béjar
2008-05-27 13:12     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-27 13:37       ` Santi Béjar
2008-05-27 13:52         ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-05-27 14:21           ` Santi Béjar
2008-05-27 18:08             ` Steven Walter
2008-05-27 20:24               ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-27 20:51       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-28  9:12         ` Santi Béjar
2008-05-29  4:39 ` Christian Couder
2008-05-29  5:09   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-29 14:56     ` Jon Loeliger [this message]

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